poetic sketchesI 

DESCRIFTI%*OF 
AND THE 

Surrounding Scenery : 

WITH 



BY JOHN M'KINLEY, DUNSEVERIC* 



Kind Nature keeps a school) 
To teach her sons herself*—— Young. 




BELFAST : 

Printed by Joseph Smyths 34, High- Street* 

1819, 



sr?° 



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TO 
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 

Jane, Counter s©acattne& 

THE FOLLOWING PAGES 
ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED, 

BY 



Her Ladyship's devoted Servant, 

THE AUTHOR, 



TO THE READER. 



The subsequent sketches were in part written before 
the appearance of Dr. Drummonds poem on the same 
subject. I have read that work ; and I am impressed 
with the conviction, that the sublimity of his conceptions 
— the grandeur of poetic expression in which they are 
clothed— will put to silence all competitors, and chill 
their hopes of arriving at his celebrity. I am sensible, 
that in treading his footsteps, I have chosen dangerous 
ground ; and I would earnestly deprecate a comparison, 
in which I must appear to so great disadvantage* 

However this may be, the candid critic will admit, that 
a similarity will occur in the sentiments and expressions 
of many of the ancient and modern poets, when hap- 
ly the latter have never had an opportunity of perusing 
the productions of their antecedents. Such a resemblance 
may exist without imitation or plagiarism ; for congeni- 
ality of thought will often produce similarity qf expres- 
sion. There are ideas that enter into almost every 
mind; and as many as speak in the same language, 
will express their admiration of great natural objects, in 
some degree alike. 

To such of my readers as have not seen Dr. Drum' 



mond's poem, these sketches may he novel, at least in 
their subject-matter ; to those who have, I am silent ; 
for, in extenuation of the errors that may occur in the 
following pages, I have only this short apology to offer 
— that I was only six months at school ; and I am 
fully aware of the temerity of thus coming before my 
numerous and respectable patrons, and an enlightened 
public, with scarce a claim to their indulgence. 

I have declined attempting to detail the various phi- 
losophical theories respecting the ivonderful jjhenomena 
of the Giant's Causeway ; and have confined myself, 
in the description, to the precincts of its immediate 
neighbourhood* 



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a Adair H. esq, Loughanmore, 2 

Avonmore Rt. Hon. Viscount- Adair Mr P. Dundalk 

ess, Dublin Alexander Rev J. Belf. Acad. 

Agnew E. J. esq, Kiilwaughter Alexander W. Surg. R.friland 

Aveling, Rev. Archdeacon, Alexander J, esq, Crew 



Drumbo House 
Annesly Rev. W. Oakley 
Atkinson Mrs, Forkhiil 
Atkinson R. esq. Armagh 
Atkinson A. esq. Killough 
Atkinson, Miss, Kilkeel 
Atkinson Mrs, Larne 
Apsley Miss* Do. 
Adderley Dr. Kilkeel 
Allen S. esq. M. D. C.fergus 
Allen S. esq. Lisconan 
Acheson Mr J. do. ' 
Allen Rev. R. Stewartstown 
Allen Mr J. Killilee 
Allen Miss, Portaferry 
Allen Miss, Ballycarry 
Allen Lt R. N. Buncrana 
Allen Lt R. N. Rathraelton 
Allen Miss, Belfast 
Adams Mr J. Ballywillen 
Adams Miss, Ballymoney 
Adams Mr T. Randalstowu 
Adams Rev M. Connor 
Adams Mr J. Katesbridge 
Adams Mr A, Ballybrick 



Alexander Miss, Ardmillan 
Auchinleck Mrs, near Down 
Alingham W. esq., B.shannon 
Alexander Mr J. Ballymena 
Alexander Mr N. P. Balleghan 
Aiken P. esq, Ballymena 
Agnew Dr. Ballyclare 
Agnew Mr S. Donegore 
Anderson R. esq, Bushmills 
Anderson Mrs R. Do 
Anderson D., esq. Belfast 
Anderson Mr J. Ballymoney 
Anderson Mr R. Carnmoney 
Anderson Mr G. Banbridge 
Anderson Mr R,. L.brickland 
Anderson Miss, Killilee 
Archer Mr S. Belfast 
Ash Miss, Magherafelt 
Averell Capt. R. N. G.dawson 
Ashe Rev. I. Tamalaght 
Ashmore Miss, Newry 
Armstrong Mr W., Lurgan 
Archbold T. esq. Dundrum 

Archbold Mr S. Belfast 
Archbold Mr J., Belfast 

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Aiken Miss, Islandmagee 
Agar Mrs. Castlewellan 
Armor Miss, Ballycuttle 
Armor Mr W. Rathfriland 
Arnold Rev. S. Warrenpoint 
Allison Mr J. Drumalla 

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Bateson Lady, Belvoir Park 
Bruce Rev. W, D.D. Belfast 
Batt N. esq. Do. 
Batt R. esq. Hydepark 
Burgoyne Sir J. J. Kt. S.bane 
Brcwnlow Col. Lnrgan 
Balfour Col. Belfast 
Brownlow Rev. F. Strabane 
Bateson R. esq. Foyle, Derry 
Babington Rev. T. Liscarric 
Babington W. H.esq, C. magore 
Bagwell J. esq. Moygannon 
Bingham Dr. Rostrevor 
Bingham Mr W. Belf. Acad. 
Beresford J. C. esq., Fruithill 
Bingham C. esq. B.gilbert 
Bingham Mr A., Lismore 
Bingham Miss, Do. 
Byrne Miss, Dublin 
Bailey Miss, Doey 
Bailey Miss, Do 
Bellis Mr J. Ballyerton 
Bayley A. esq., Belfast 
Bailie Mi K. Belfast 
Eennet T. <>sq. Macosquin 
Bennet S. esq. Do. 
Bell H. H. esq. W.lodge 
Bell Mr J., Prospect 
Bell Mr T., Belfast 
Bell Mr Wm. Do. 



Bell Mrs John, Beech Park 
Bell Rev. A., L.L.D. Down 
Bell Mrs. Belfast 
Bell Mr J. Cargie 
Bell, Mr. J, Rathfriland 
Beers, W. esq., Newcastle 
Beatty Mr R. M., Ballymena 
Byrne Mr. C, Dundalk 
Byrne Mr. P., Do. 
Beatty, Rev. S., Ahory 
Borland Rev. P. H., Bann 
Baron, J. Surgeon B. bridge 
Boyd E. D. esq., Ballycastle 
Boyd W. esq., Nath lodge 
Boyd M. esq., Lurgan 
Boyd Miss, Do. 
Boyd J. H. esq., Belfast 
Boyd D. esq., Monesland 
Boyd W. esq., Shamrock lodge 
Boyd Robert esq., Acton 
Bayd Mr J. Bellisle 
Boyd Mr F. Moy 
Boyd R. esq, Armagh 
Boyd Dr. Colerain 
Boyd Dr, S.town 
Boyd Miss, Lisconan 
Boyd Mr D., Ballybrak* 
Boyd Miss A., Do. 
Boyd Mr S., Derry 
Boyd Miss, Corville 
Boyd Rev. H, Hill town 
Boyd Mr A., Capecastle 
Boyd Mr II., Cairnkirk 
Boyd Mr pan., Do. 
Boyd Mr X, M. haley 
Boyd, Mr J., Knockan 
Boyd Mr R., Dunadry 



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Booth Mrs. Do. 
Birnie T. M. esq., D.mining 
Burden Mr. John, Falls 
Butler Rev. S. A. M., M.gan 
Birch Mr. Sam. Armagh 
Broomfield, Lieut. 87 Regt. 
Byrne Mr. P. C, A.ghlone 
Boulger Maj. 97 Staff, Newry 
Bellingham Mrs., Dundalk 
Bellingham A. O. esq., P.down 
Baker Mr. J. R. O., Newry 
Black T. esq., Forestbrook 
Black R. esq., Larne 
Black Mr. G., Bunkershill 
Black Mrs., Belfast 
Boyle Mrs. J., Dundalk 
Boyle Mr. J., Bally ed ward 
Brady J. esq., Ballycastle 
Boylan Mr. H., B.lalaght 
Boylah G. esq., Ardee 
Brown Rev. J,, Garvagh 
Brown Rev. J., Aghadowy 
Brown Mr. S. Magherafelt 
Brown Rev. W. T.more 
Brown Miss R., Ballyart 
Brown Mr. J. Carnside 
Brown Mr. A., C. glass 
Brown Mr. J. E., B.macarret 
Brown Mr. J. G., Muckamore 
Brown Mr. G., Belfast 
Browne Mr. W., Newry 
Brown Mr C, Belfast 
Brown W. esq., W.town 
Brown Turner esq. Do. 
Brown Miss, Ballygera 
Burke Mr. A. R., Larne 



Brush G. esq., Dromore 
Barklie J. esq., TuIIymore 
Brett, Mr. W. Dundalk 
Booth Mr. R. Foundry, Derry 
Blakely Mr. J. Ballymena 
Beggs Mr. T. Ballyclare 
Blow Mr. D. M., Belfast 
Blackadder Mr. J. Belfast 
Blackwood Mr J. Belfast 
Brown Mr.. C. Do. 
Brown Mr J. Do. 
Black Mr M. Do. 
Bryson E. Surgeon, Antrim 
Brady Mr. W. Cubedall 
Byrne Miss, Lurgan 
Blacker H. esq., Millburn 
Balfour Miss, Belfast 
Brennan Mr. J. jun. Newiy 
Bullick Mr S., Belfast 
Bortree Mr. S., Cohonan 
Boyle H. esq, Dungiven * 
Boyle J. esq., N. L. vady 
Boyle Miss, Drumcovet 
Boyle Mr W., Money more 
Boyle Miss Ellen, Larne 
Boyle H. esq., Mascosquin 
Boal Mr T., B.bentra 
Boal, Mrs. J., Ballycregy 
Blair, Miss Charlotte, Larne 
Blair, Mrs. Bushmills 
Blair, Mr. David, BalJymaglin 
Blair Mr. Wm., Money more 

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Cary G. esq., Cassino 
Caulfield T. esq. Moy 
Campbell Rev. V, T . Clough 
Campbell Mr. T. 7 Belfast 



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Campbell Miss, Killead 
Campbell Mr. J. Cairn Colp 
Campbell Mr. S., Belfast 
Caldwell W. esq., Armagh 
Caldwell Mrs., Dublin 
Caldwell Miss, Dungannon 
Caldwell Miss R., C.castle 
Cameron Mr. G., B.clare 
Craig Mr. S., Browndod 
Crowrey Rev. S. A.M. Keenan 
Curoe Eev. R., Kilkeel 
Churnside T. Surgeon, P.ferry 
Church R. esq., Strangford 
Church Mrs. Do. 
Cuming J. esq., Killough 
Close Mr. J., Armagh 
Crawley C. esq., Bryansford 
Cumming Mr. H. S., B.mena 
Gumming Rev., Bailee 
Cavan Mr. H., Bailee 
Cultrath Mr. W., Do. 
Chambers Miss, Bailee 
Chambers D. esq., M.felt 
Canning Mr, W., D.gannon 
Courtney J. Esq, P.glenone 
Courtney Mr. S., R.town 
Colli oun Mrs. Strabane 
Colhoun Mrs., Labadish 
Crompton Mrs., Derry 
Cunningham Mr. J., Belfast 
Cunningham J. esq., Do 
Cunningham Miss, Lisburn 
Cunningham J. Esq, Derry 
Camack W. esq, Do. 
Carmichael S, esq., Do. 



Curry J. M. esq., Do, 
Curry Miss, Ballycastle 
Coats Rev. E. ; Rostrevor 
Crea Mr. T. Kingwady 
Chapman Mr. T., Antrim 
Clugston Mr. A. Do. 
Carley Rev. J., Do. 
Carley Mr. J. Larne 
Creek Mr. C, Belfast 
Cressley Mr. J. Do 
Cochran Mr. J. Coleraine 
Clinton Rev. T., Dartford 
Craig Mr. J. Armagh 
Craig Mr. G. Tanderagee 
Cherry Mr. John, Richhili 
Caraher Mr. J., Newry 
Cavanagh Mr J., Magherafelfe 
Cooke G. esq., Xewry 
Cooke R. esq., Do. 
Cooke Miss A., Do 
Cooke, Rev. H., Killileagh 
Cooke Mrs, Ramelton 
Cooke Mr A., C.niury 
Cosgrove Mr D. Belfast 
Crump J. esq., DungannoR 
Chichester Mr C, Do. 
Caruth Mr G, C.island 
Collins J. esq., C.town 
Collins Mr J., Falls 
Crawford J. esq, Bloomfield 
Crawford Rev W. Newgrov* 
.Crawford Mr B., Lisburn, 
Cummins Mr E. Belfast 
Carrol Mrs J. Dundalk 
Cairns W. esq., C.bellinghai* 
Cotter Miss, Killough 
Connel Mr J., C.bore 



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Cupples Rev. S. D. D., Lisburn 
Crommelin N. D. Esq. Carrow- 

dore 
Caddel E. esq., R friland 
Coulter Mr W., Mourne 
Clark Mr A., Lawin 
Carson Mr A., D.neil 
Carson Mr J., Ballyligg 
Campbell Mr J. Portrush 
Campbell Mr R., Portaferry 
Carleton F. esq., Green Park 
Clibbom J. esq., Banbridge 
Chesney A. esq. Prospect 
Chamney H. esq., Inakely 
Christy J., L.stown 
Christy J. esq., Stramore 
Creery Rev. Leslie, T.gee 
Creery J. esq., Do. 
Clark Mrs., Ballyroney 
Clark Mrs., T.robert 
Clark Mr J., Ballymena 
Clark T. esq., Belfast 

i Coulter J. esq., Carnmeen 
Creelman Miss, Ballyweney 
Cramsie Miss, Coldou 
Coffy E. esq., Derry 
Coleman Mr T., Belfast 
Cochran Mr M., B.side 
Cochrane Miss, Armagh 
Cochrane Rev. J. Lame 
Ciippage J. esq., Gienbank 
Cuppage T. esq., Lurgau 
CairdMrJ., Belfast 
Carr Rev. W., Do 
Colman Mr J., R.t>entra 

* Curell Mr D., Killdrum 
Cooper Mr J v Claudy 



Cinnamond Doctor, Da 
Cuthbert Mr W., M.more 
Cuddy Mr. Jas, Belfast 
Cuddy Mrs Coleraine 
Close Wm. M.D., Belfast 
Coyle Mr D., Coleraine 
Caufield Mr J., Do 
Cowley Mr J., W. point 
Cromie J. esq., Coleraine 
Corry Mr J. A. Croneugh. 
Coulson W. Esq., Lisburn 
Carey A. Esq., Bangor 
Cunningham Mr. S., Groomsport 
Clan ey Mr X, Grenshaw 
Claney Mr R., Do. 
Claney Mr A., Bangor 
Catherwood W., M.D., D.dee. 
Catherwood J. F. Esq., B.vester 
Carmichael Mr R., Millisle 
Carmichael Mr D. Do. 
Campbell Mr J., Ballyhask 
Campbell Rev. W^,Ray 

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oness of 
Down and Connor Rt. Rer. 
Lord Bishop of, 6 copies 
Drummond Rev. W. H. D.D. 

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Dobbs Rev. R. Carrickfergus 
Douglass T. esq., G.hall 
Douglass C. jun. esq., Dervock 
Douglass Doctor, Lurgan 
Douglass Mr A., B.bentra 
Dunn E. esq, Strangforet 
Dunn Mr J., Belfast 
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Dillon R. esq., Belfast 
Dawson W. esq. W.bank 
Dawson Mrs V., R.strevor 
Davis Rev. J. Banbridge 
Dawson Mr W., F.vale 
Dawson Mr S. R., Belfast 
Dallas Mr H., Colerain 
Dinnen Mr J., Belfast 
Duncan Mr R., M.felt 



k Duxberry Mr C, H.park 
Darley G. esq. Mountpleasaut 
Dugall Mr W. Magherafelt 
Dale Mr J. Dungannon 
Dare us Mrs, Derry 
Dysart J. esq. Do 
Dysart T v r . esq. Do 
Donaldson Miss, Dungannon 
Duff Mr J. Cookstown 



Duncan S. Lieut. R.A., B.castle, Drummond J. L., M.D. Belfast 



Dunlop A. esq., D.gessan 
Dunlop Miss, Dunbo 
Dunlop Mr D. Coleraine 
Dunlop Mr J., D.hill 
Dunlop Rev. J. B.shane 
Dunlop Miss, B.laggan 
Delap Mr Robert, Belfast 
Donnelly Mr J. Do 
Dobbin Rev. H. Lurgan 
Dobbin L. esq. Armagh 
Dobbin Mr S. Belfast 
Doyle Mrs Do 
Dickson J. esq. Bally mena 



Dowling Miss, N.cunningham 
Dean Miss, Dungiven 
Daniel Mr. W, Belfast. 
Dalway Mrs, Bellahill 
Dugan Messrs G. & A. B.mena 
Dillon Wm, Esq., Lisburn 
Donaldson, Mr Wm., Belfast 
Davis Mr S., Bangor 
Davis Mrs, Belfast 
Dennison Mr. J., B.vernon. 
Dornan J. Surgeon, Ballycastle 

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Ellis H. esq. Innisrush 



Dickson Rev. W. 3 Rasharkan, 2 Ellis David esq. Fatham 
DicksonRev.W.S.D.D.Mourne, Ellison Mr J. Finvoy 
Devlin Rev. P., Rostrevor Echlin J. jun. esq. Portaferry 

Dickey Mr N. Antrim Eccles S. esq., S.T.C. DubUn 

Dickey T. jun. esq. Bally mena Elder Mr J. New- York 



Dickson Mr S. B.narry 
Dickey J. esq. Holiybrook 
Dickey Mr J. Rockfield 
Davison Mr \V*. B.gargy 
Davison Mrs, Maghera 
Davison Rev. J. Cookstown 



English' Mr C. A. Belfast P.H, 
Evans R. Surgeon, R.N., M.felt 
Evans J. Surg. R.N. Maghera 
Elder Rev. M., Killraghts 
Elder Rev. S. H., B.easton 
Emerson Mr J,, B 



Davidson Mr W. Stewartstown Evans Rev. E.J., L.brickland 
Dorian Rev. J. Dundalk Elliott Mr T. Randalstown 

Drennan Mr S. Banbridge Edwards Mr G. Burt 



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Edwards, Ensign 50th Regt. Fletcher Rev. Wm,, Ballyroney 
Edwards E. A. Esq., Dungiven Fulton Mr. Thomas, Balleney 
Ewing Mr Robert, Cotton nit. Ferris Mr. John, Violethill 



Fullerton Mr. R., Rasharkin 
Fife Mr, Samuel, B.weney 
Ferries Mr. Wm., Tober 
Fleming Mr. John, Magiliigan 
f. Fleming Rev. Wm., M.gannoa 

Ferguson Sir Robt. A. Bart, Derry Fleming Mr. John, Browndod 



Edgar Mr John, B.tibert 
Egan Rev. John, Dungannon 
Edgar Edvv. Esq., B.crana 
Ewart Mr W. Belfast 



Forde Colonel, Seaford 
Filgate Colonel, Lisrenny 
Ferguson Miss, Do. 
Foster J. esq., Phillipstown 
Ferguson, Dr., C.wellan 



Fleming Rev. J. P. C.town 
Fitzsimmons Mr S., Belfast 
Finlay Ross Esq., Bangor 
Finlay Mr J., Balloo 

Finlay Miss, Cotton 



FergusonWm. Esq., Thrushfield Fulton Mrs J., Lisbura 
Ferguson A. Esq., Burt house Fawcett Miss, Bangor 
Fivey John Esq., L.B.land 



Fayle Mr. John, Lurgan 

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Gosford, Rt. Hon. Earl of 
Gosford, Rt. Hon. Countess of 

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Garret Thos. Esq., Belfast 
Grimshaw J. Esq., Whitehous© 
Grimshaw Miss M. A., Do. 
Grimshaw John Esq., Do. 
Gray Mr J., Belfast 



Fisher Mr W., L.kenny 

Fisher Miss, Maghera 

Fisher Mr Saml., Drumboy 

Fone Mr Joseph, Armagh 

Frazer Miss, Newry 

Flavell Mr John, Do. 

Farnan Mr John, Tullymore 

Fitzgerald Mr John, Doagh 

Farrell Mr. John, Do. 

Fitzpatrick Mr. Hu., Seaharbour Gray Basil Esq., Colffraine 

Forde John Esq., Dundalk Gray Mr. Geo., Newry 

Farrell, Jas. A. Esq., Larne Gregg D. Esq., Lisburn 

Ferris Samuel, Surgeon, Do. Gregg Mrs. C , B.menock 

Forsythe Jas., M.D., Belfast Gray Mr. Robert, D.given 

Ferris Edw. Edw. esq. Belf.A.I. Gray Mr. Jas., Carnnish 

Fetherstone Jas. Esq., Beechill Gray Mr. Wm., B.bogey 

Forsythe Geo. M. D., C.fergus 

Forsythe Mr. Wm,, Do, 

Forcade Henry M.D. Belfast 

Forester, Miss, Cloverhill 



Ganaby Reading Society 
Gray Mr. Wm. D.adery 
Gray Mr. Hugh, Down 
George Miss, Silverhill 



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Graeey James .Esq., Do. 
Graeey Alex. Esq. B.hosset 
Girvin Robert Esq., Roan 
Gamble Mr. Robt., Bushmills 
Gamble Mr. Robert, Carry reagh 
Getty Mrs. Robert, Bundalk 
Getty Dr., Do. 
Getty Mr. Wm, Ganaby 
Getty Mr. John, Regies 
Getty Miss. Newtonlimavady 
Getty Mr. John, R.town 
Gouldsberry Miss J., Alia 
Gage Mrs., Magilligan 
Gourley Mr. John, C.town 
Green Mr. John, Muff 
Given Mr. Benj., Lisconan 
Given Mr. Robert, Coleraine 
Given Mr. Samuel, C.mills 
Given Mr. Samuel, B. bogey 
Given Mr. Daniel, Coleraine 
Given Mrs. S. Flow erli eld 
Given Mr. Robert, Lisconan 
Given John Esq., Farlo 
Greer Rev. James, Finvoy 
Greer Mrs., Lurgan 
Greer Richard Esq., Do. 
Greer Mr. James, Do. 
Greer Mr. Thos., Ballynarry 
Greer Dr., Ramelton 
Greer Mr John, Do. 
Greer Mr John, Rasharkan v 
Graves Capt. L. D. M. , C. dawson 
Greeves Mr Thos. D.gannon 
Greer Thos. Capt. Staff R. town 
Gwynne Rev John Bally nure 
Gwynne Rev. S., Larne 
Gibson MrNathc, Antrim 



Gibson Rev. James, Kiilalee 
Gibson Miss, MagilHgan 
Gowdy Dr. C.wellan 
Griffith Mr Benj., Bally monfcf 
Gordon Mr John, L.more 
Gelston Mr Wm,, Belfast 
Gribben Mr. James, Do. 
Graham Miss, Deny 
Graham Mr Wm., Do. 
Gait Wm. Esq., Coleraine 
Gait Mr John jun^ Do. 
Gait Mr Robt. Ballycarry 
Gavins S. J. Esq., Derry 
Gavin J. H. Esq. Dunboe 
Gribben Mr Henry Coleraine 
Gregory Wm. Surgeon, Do. 
Gillilan Wm. Esq., Randlestown 
Gawin Mr Andrew, B.claverty 
Gilmour Mr Jas., Larne 
Gilmer Mr John jun., Rashee 
Gilmer Mr Robert, Dervoek 
Gilmer Mr George, Drumheek 
Gibbons Mrs R., N.castle 
Gibbons Riehd, Esq., Annaclare 
Gawthorne Mr R., Belfast 
Garvey Mr Henry, Do. 
Glenny J. G. Esq., Glenville 
Gillespie Mrs, Derry 
Gillespie Miss E., T.valley 
Gardner Mr James, Cappy, 
Gayer Miss, Belfast 
Gray Mr J., Do. 
Glover Mr J., Dunover. 

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Heyland Col. Giendarragh 
Heyland Mrs. Do. 
Harvey H. Seymour Esq., Lis* . 
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Harvey Thomas Esq., Derry Halyday Mrs, Kilkeel 
Harvey Richard Esq., Do. Haslett George esq., Derry 

Hutchinson A. esq. Stranooum Haslett Rev. Henry, C.reagh 
Harrison Mrs, Newgrove v Hezlet Robert esq., Coleraine 
Harrison Rev. Wm., H.wood Hill Lieut. Col. 50th Regt. 
- Harrington Mr Robt., Armagh Hill Rev. Chas., Rimmon glebe 
Harrington Mr John, Moy Hill Major, Bellaghy 

Henderson Mr Wm., Shankill Hill Lancelot esq., Coleraine 
Henderson Miss, Belfast Hill Miss, Trench 

Henderson Mr Edward, C.fergusHagan Mr E., Belfast 
Henderson Mr Samuel, Rye Hancock J. esq., Lisburn 
Heatly Lieut. 50th RegU Hancock W. I. esq., Lisburn 

Haltridge Robt. Esq., CloverhillHaliday, H. esq., Belfast 
Hackett Mr John, R.melton Hannay George esq., Bangor 
Hendrick Wm. Esq., L.kenny Harper Mr A. B., Cormick 
Hamilton Wm. Esq. Killough Hannay Mr J., B.vernon 
Hamilton James Esq., Corkey Hutchinson Mrs, B.holm 
Hamilton Mrs E. M. Belfast Hathorn Dr., Donaghadee 
Hamilton John Esq. Dublin Higgins Mr. P n Bangor 
Hamilton J. Esq., Crebilly Hill Mr Wm., Moarget 

Hamilton Wm. Esq., D.crete Hill Mr Arthur, I.magee 
Hamilton Miss M. J., Tullyown Hillam H. esq., Newry 
Hamilton Rev. Stewart, StrabaneHope L. M. Belfast 
Harpur Mr M., Belfast Hogart Mr John, I3ellalaght 

Hyndman Mr Hugh, Do. - Hogart Miss, Do^ 

Hamilton Mr Wm., Hydepark Hogart Mr Samuel, Do. 
Hamilton Mr Robert, Do. Hogart Mr Wm., Croagh 

Hamilton Mr Edw., Belfast Hogart Mr George, Do. 
Hamilton S. G. Surgeon, K.keelHull Esq., Donaghadee 
Hamilton T. Surg., Dlgannon Huey Mrs, Newry 
Hamilton Wm. Esq., BallymonyHuey Mr Robert, Do. 
Hartwell Doctor, Down Hudson Edward esq., L.b.land 

Hart Mrs. Georgina, Ballygard Huston Rev. Francis, Armagh 
Hart Mr Wm., V. bridge Holmes Mr Nathl., Moy 

Hay Rev. George, Derry Holmes Mr Wm., I.magee 

Hay Mr H. Ramsey, B.easton Hyndman Miss Julia, Lurgan 
Higginson, J. esq. Cfcshendall Hyndman Miss, Killydonly 
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Henry Mr Nathl., C.town 
Henry Mr Wm., B.vellan 
Henry Mr John, Ballyhosset 
Henry Mr James, Do. 
Henry Mrs, Do. 
Henry Mr Wm,, Grange 
Henry Rev. H., Connor 
Henry Mrs, Maghera 
Henry P. Surgeon R. N. Do. 
Hunter Mrs, Dunluce 



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Harshaw Dr., Newry 



Hamill Miss, Cmoon 
Haniiil Rev. Saml. A.M. Do. 
Hamill Miss E. Do. 
Handeock Mr. W. Rathmullan 
Hancock Miss, Lisburn 
Heron J. Surgeon, K.breda 
Hopkins Capt* S$rangford 
Hopkins Miss, Do. 
Hodgson Messrs. R, & J. Belfast 



Hunter Miss Margaret, D.covett Harlin Mr W. Belfast 



Hunter Dr., Moy 
Hunter Walter esq. 
Hunter Mr J. H[., Belfast 
Hunter R. esq., L.kenny 
Hunter Win. esq., Dunmurry 
Hunter Miss Jane, Do. 
Hunter Mrs A., Do. 
Hunter Mr James, Millbrook. 
Hunter Mr Samuel, Belfast 
Hunter Miss, B.nagross 
Hunter Miss, B. warren 
Hunter Dr., Ramelton 
Hunter Miss, Corstown 
Hunter Mr. J. jun., Aghadoey 



Hanna Mr James, B.w.townr, 
Harper Mr J., Belfast 
Hanna Mr Robt. Do. 
Hanna Rev. J* Lismooney 
Hanna Mr S. Dunminning, 
Harkin Mr H. Bally money 
Hood Mr J. Moyle 
Hood Mr J. Maghermore 
Hood Mr J. Manorcunningham 
Hughes Mr Wm. Cammoney 
Hughes Mr Franeis, Macosquia 
Holland Mrs. Heathpark 
Hutchinson Mrs. B. money 
Henderson Mr, W. Belfast 



Hugo Arthur esq., Dungannon Hughes Mr. J. C.reagh 



Hall Mrs, Arboe 

Hall Miss J., Do. 

Hall Mrs, N.water 

Hall Mr Daniel, Bluff 

Hall Miss, M.felt 

Hall Rowley esq., Lisburn 

Hogg Rev Robert, Armagh 

Hogg J. esq., Redford 

Horner Rev. R. N., Dundalk 

Houghton Joseph esq., Down 



Hay den Rev. John, Aughanlo© 
Hazelton Dr. Killileagh 
Hull Mr E. Magherafelt 
Hull Miss H. Corsevale 
Harpur Mr Saml. Moy 
Harpur Miss E. Do. 
Hassan Mr P. Ballycastle 
Hazleton Dr., Killalee 
Harrison, Miss, Woodville 
Harding, Mr. J. Belfast 



Haughton Ben jun. esq. Banford 



SUBSCRIBERS* tfAMBS. X* 

i. Killeen Rt. Hon, Lord Visct. 

Corbator Hall 
Knox Rev. J., Derry 
Knox Colonel, Prehend 
KnowlesMr J. Sheridan, Glasgow 
Kennedy H. esq. , Cultra 
Kennedy Rev. C, Maghera 
Kennedy J. T. esq. Annadale 
Kennedy Miss, Rathfriland 
Kennedy Mr; N Ballymoney 
Kerr Miss, Roslic 
Kerr Mr. J. Crankill 
Kerr Miss Banvale 
Kennedy W. esq. Armagh 
Kerr Mr J. Kroon 



Irvine Major, Drum 
Innes A. esq. Drumantine 
Irwin Mrs., Wellbrook 
Irwin W. esq., Drumalla 
Ingram, Archd. M*D. Maiorris 

j. 
Jocelyn Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. 
Jocelyn Rt. Hon. Viscountess 
Jephson Rev. J. Mullabrack 
Johns Alex. esq. Carrickfergus 
Johnston Miss, Belfast 
Jameson Mr A. Carrickarede 
Johnston Miss, B.w.tovvn 
Johnston Rev. James, C. island 



Johnston Thos. esq. Do# 
Johnson Rev. A. D.covert 
Jennings Charles esq. Newry 
Johnston W. M.D. Do. 
Johnston W. esq., P.ferry 
Johnston Mrs. G-, Dundalk 
Johnston W. esq., Down 



Kerr Mrs., Banbridge 
Keaghy Lieut. R. N. D. Militia 
Kyd Rev. H., Dungiven 
Kyd A. esq., Ballymacarret 
Kirkpatrick Miss, B.lough 
Kirkpatrick Mr J., Beerhill 
Kirkpatrick Mr S., Ballycastte 



Johnston Rev. G.H. M. Bwille, Kirkpatrick Mr. J., Belfast 
Johnston Mr Robt., B.kwady Kirkpatrick Mr "W., Lame 
Johnston Mr G. Kells Kilpatrick Mr J. Templeastragh 

Jackson Mr J. Ballyhymloss Kilpatrick E. esq., Springfield 
Jones Lieutenant, 14th DragoonsKilpatrick W. esq., Armagh 



Joyce T. esq., Bortadown 
Jack Mr. W., Kiltymoris. 
Jackson Dr., Ballywooley 
Jackson Mr. J. Bafad 
Janrison Mr, B., Liswatty- 
Johnston R. W. esq, B.macarrett 



Keown J. esq., Tolemore 
Keown Miss A*, P.ferry 
Keown Mr R,, B.hornan 
Kelly Mr J., Bangor 
Kelly C. esq., Surgeon R. Navy 
Derry 



Johnston Mrs T., S.town Kirkwood Mr N., Dunamoy 

Johnston W. J. esq., Buncrana Kirkwood Mr. T,, Roseland 

Johnston Mr. J. Boghead Kirkwood Mr. J. Whiteheuse. 

Johnson Mr W» Antrim Kindell Mr P., Ballymoney 



SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. 



Kirker Miss, Drumheck 

L. 

Lambart Rev. G. Ardee 
Little Mrs^ Stewartstown 
Little P. esq., Dungiven 
Little >Ir J., R. O. Newry 
Little and Hararaet, Derry 
Lee Miss, Armagh 
Leckey J» G. esq., Bushhank 
Lewis Miss, Bailee 
.Lewis Mr C. Kirkeel 
Livingston Rev. S., PJ"erry 



Lawless J. Esq, Belfast 
Lepan Monsieur, Belfast 
Law Mr J. S. Belfast 
Leake Rev. J., Mullavilly 
Lutton Mr. J., L.brickland 
Lutton Dr. Lisburn 
Lutton C. esq., do 
Lockart Miss Rathinullan 
Lockart Mr. S., Banbridge 
Lamont Mrs, Liverpool 
Lament Mr Nevin, B.magee 
Lemon Mr. J., Donaghadee 



Livingston Mr. \V r . Benvarden Lyons Mr S. Bangor 



Lindsay T. esq., Loughrea 
Lindsay J. esq., Maghera 
Lindsay Mr J. B.gorian 
Lindsay Mr A. Rathfriland 
Lynd Mr R., Belfast 
Lynd Mr W. junr., Larkfield 



Lamont & Dugan, Belfast 
Lyons Dr. Lurgan 
Lion Lieut. Adjut. 50th Regt. 
Lighton J. W. esq., Dunlodge 
Lyons W. esq., Birchhill 
Lowry T. Surgeon D.gannon 



Lynn Rev. J.,AM.Knockintern Lowry A. esq., Lismenhill 



Linn Mr J. Ballybentra 
Latimer J. C. esq. Scarvey 
Lyle Mrs, Summerseat 
Lyle Mr F. Carrincoggy 
Lyle Miss A., do 
Lyle Miss M. Donnel 
Lyle Miss, Knoekinbuoy 
Lyle Miss E. do 
Lyle A. jun. esq., Armagh 
Lyle Mr. J., Newry 
Lyle Mr. J. Belfast 
Lyle Mr T. do. 
Lyle S. esq. do 
Lucas Mr W. B., W.town 
Law S. esq., Hayzell Bank 
Law J. esq., Castlewellan 
Law Miss, Dunmore 
Law Miss, Bannview 



Lowry Mr J. do 
Lawther W. Surgeon T.patrick 
Lawenes C. esq. Summerseat 
Leslie Mr J., F.lestry 
Leslie Miss M. do 
Lawson C, Belfast 
Lepper Mr F., Belfast, 
Lepper Mr C, do 
Lavens Miss, Millfori 
Lavens Mr T., do 
Lavens Mr J. M., do 
Lorimer Mr J. Carincastle 
Laughlin Mr \V., Dervock 
Lithgow D. M.D., Colerain 
Lithgow Mr J., do 
Lyons Mrs. S. Dungannon 
Letham Mr A^ 
Letham Mr J. do 



SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Xn* 

L vie Rev- W. A.M. Fairview Montgomery H. esq., Benvarden 

Lynch Rev. P. Migilligan Montgomery J. esq., Belfast 

Letham Mr W, Burt Montgomery Rev. A. Antrim 

Letham Mr G. Ballybentra Montgomery Miss II. , Larne 

Luke Miss, Belfast Montgomery Capt. 50th Regt. 

Lough ead Rev. R., B. money Montgomery Dr. Moneymore 

Lawrence Miss, Ballykeel Montgomery Mr W. Ray 

Ledlie G. esq., Floodlodge Montgomery Miss, do 

Loyd R. esq. Tamnamore Montgomery Mr S. Groomsport 

Ledlie T. esq., Antrim M'Mullan Rt. Rev. Dr. P. Down 

Locke Miss L., Dungannon M'Mullan Rev. P. Rasharken 

Locke Mrs., Dublin M'Mullan Rev. E. Lecale 

Leech Mr F., Riilraghts Moore Jas. esq. Ballymeney 

Leech Mr G. Letterkenny M'llveen G. esq. Belfast 

Lambert J. esq. Jonesville M'Cance J. esq. Falls 

Lascelles J, esq. Hillpark M ; Neill E. A. esq. Cushendun 

Lendrick, Mr. T. Drumnavan M'Neale J. esq., Baliycastle 
Lodge (Masonic) No. 119, Car- M'Neill II. F. esq. do. 

rareagh, 2 M'Neill A. esq., do 

No. 150, Kilrea, 8 M'Neill Miss, do 
No. 180, (Star of Ards) Greyab-M'Leverty Miss M. Glynn 

bey, 2 M'Cracken Mrs J. Belfast 

No. 229, Dervock, 2 , Moore J. S. esq, B.divity 2 

No. 955, Lisnagunage- 2 Maxwell J. W, esq. Finnabrogue 

No. 1001, Lisbdnagroagh, 2 Maxwell Rev. W. H. W. point 

-m. Maxwell Major, 50th Regt. 
Macartney G. esq., LissanoreMaxwell Mrs W. Beifast 

Castle M'Gildowny E. esq., Bailycastle 

Macartney Rev. Dr. Antrim M'Gildowny C. esq,, do 
Macartney Rev. A.C. Newlodge M-Manus A. esq. Cullybackey 

M'Naghten E. A. esq. M.P. M'Ardell, Rev A. L.brickland 

Bairdville M'Cardell Rev. E. M. Dundalk 

M'Donnell J. M.D. Belfast M'Ardell Mr M. Do. 

M'DonneirAIex, esq. do. M'Kevett Rev. B. Dundalk 

M'Donnell Alex. esq. Raghery Miller A. esq., Down 

M : Donneli Miss, Belfast . Miller Capt. Portaferry 

Martin R. esq, Kilbroney M'Clelland C esq, Ardmore 



Sir SXrasCRIBERs' VAMtt* 

Mitchell Capt. 50th Regt. M'Kinley Mr John Rimmoff 

Mason Capt. Do. M'Kinley Miss, Colliers-hall 

MolesworthCapt.R.A. BuncranaM'Kinley Mr John Rasharkeu 
Moore S. Esq. B.cree M'Kinley Mr P. do, 

Moore Lt. 71st Regt. C.trumin M'Kinley Miss, Straid 
Moore Vf, Esq, Moorelodge Mooney Mr. P., Banside 
Miller J. esq. Rosslodge Martin Mr. W. join. Islandhoe 

Magowan Rev W. P.norris M'Coy Miss Jane Domain 
M'Kee Rev. David, Anaghlone M'Mullan Mrs Ballintoy 
Magee Wm., esq., Lodge M'Mullan Mrs Wm. do. 

Magee S. esq. Belfast M'Mulkn Mrs Callhome 

Magee Charles esq. Banbridge Miller J. E. M. D. Deny 
Murphy Rev. J. I.magee M'Cormick Mr. J. Coolkeney 

Mulholland J. esq. London M'Cormick Mr R« T:billy 

M'Culloch Capt A. Bangor M'Corrrick Mr P. Loughgilf 



MClelland Mr A. B.bridge 
M'Cune Mr W. D.patrick. 
M'Comb Mr A. Dundalk. 
M'Collum Mr J. Do, 
Ma^rath Mr P. Do* 



M^Minn Alex. esq. D.adee 

M'Creedy A. esq. B.roney 

M* Master Mr A, Charlemont 

M'Afee Mr J. Aughadoey 

M'Clean S. esq. Belfast 

M'Clean W. Surgeon, D.gannonM'Inteer Mr E. Do. 

M'Conaghy Mr D. B.moy M'Gennis Rev* J. Newry 

Malcolmson J. Surgeon. B.bridgeM'Culloch Mr B. Kilkeel 

Morrison Mr W. Dunseveric Murphy Mr R. Do. 

Morrison Mrs, Courselodge 



Morrison Dr. Newry 
M'llroy Dr. Dungannen 
Mason Miss, D.crombie 
M'Dowell Mr J. Newry 
M'Kinley Miss B., Ballinlea 
M'Kinley Mr George, do. 
M'Kinley Mr J. Ballymoy 
M'Kinley Mr. Wm. do. 
M'Kinley Mr Archd. do. 
M'Kinley Miss, Armagh 
M'Kinley Mr John Conagher 
M'Kinley Miss L. Belfast 



Magogan Mr J., Capecastle 
Murphy Mr A., Lurgan 
Marmion Mr. A., Kilkeel 
M'Keown Mr J., Infantlodge 
M'Clelland A., Surgeon, T.agee 
Murray Mr J. Moy 
Murray Mr Alex. Annoy 
Munay Miss, Down 
Murray Dr., Belfast 
Magee Mr. John, Belfast 
Magee Mr James Lurgan 
Miller Mr D. Burnside 
Moreison, Mr T Crookedstone 



SVBSCRIBERS KAMfcS. XV 

M'llwrath Mr D. Dungonnell M'Dougall Mr T. White-house 



Molyneaux Mr A. B.harvey 
M'Bride Miss, Wholestone 
Murpliy Dr Larne 
M'Kee J. A.M. Carncastle 
M'Dowell Miss, Ballyligg 
Mackay A. esq. Belfast 
Moore Roger esq, Whitehouse 
M'Cann Miss E. Belfast 
M'Adam Mr J. Do. 
M'Nair Mr Thomas, Belfast 
M*Nair Mr John, P. burn 
M'Nair Miss, Donaghadee 
Matthews- Mr Rr. Belfast 
Matthews Dr. Cloughmills 
Matthews, Mr Jhs. Stranocum 
Matthews Mr James, Dundalk 
M'Cune Miss, Belfast 
Mitchell Mr J. Ballymacarrett 
MiUigan Mr J. Belfast 
Mulholland Mr C. Belfast 
Mulholland Mr J. C. mount 
M'Culloch Mr Thos. Belfast 
M'Cully Mr R., Newtownards 
M'Cully Mr W. Cookstown. 
M'Kittrick Dr. Bangor 



M'Auly J. W. esq^Glenoak 
M'llveen S. Surgeon, H.wood 
M'llroy Mr George, Belfast 
M'Cormick Mr R. do. 
M'Kinzie J. esq., do». 
M'Evoy Mr J. do 
M'Creedy Mr do* 
Magoveney Dr. de. 
M'llheran Miss, Bally alton 
M'Nown Mr Jas. B. count 
Maglenon Miss, L.mooney 
Moore Mr J. Ballywaren 
Martin Mr. S. T.money 
M'Knight Mr R., C.aville 
McAllister Mr S., B.castie 
M'Keever Miss, do 
Miller Miss, do 
Miller Miss C, do 
Miller Mr C, Antrim 
Mackay Miss, B.gailach 
M'IntyKe Mr R.L. Deny 
Mitchell Mr J. C.Howard 
M'Munn Mr R.A. L.kenny 
Moore Mr R. Do. 
M'Elhinney Miss, Maghremore 



M'Clure Geo. Surg. R.N. N.ardsM'Ginley, Miss C. Carncraggy 



Moore Mr J. B.sallagh 
Moore Mr J. B.groaney 
Moore Mr Hugh Bangor 
M' Bride Miss, Grenshaw 
Macartney Mr George, do. 
M< Carrel Mr C. Bangor 
M'Gowan Mr H. B.holm 
M'Cracken Mr R. Dunover 
Moffet Mr R. Cultra 
Miller Mr G. L. Glastry 



Mitchell Rev. J. Dungiven 
M'Dugall Mr C. Bo. 
Moore Mr T. Do. 
M'llvar Dr. Dungiveu 
Moodie Mr A. Farlow 
M'Keever Mr T. R.O. Kilrea 
May Mr W. Coolmore 
M'Kinny, Mr J. M.grand 
Mann Mr P. Cloughwater 
Moore Mr T, B.mena 



XVI SiJESCR 

M'Clurkan Mr J. Belfast 
Marshall J. Esq. Dunadry 
Murray Mr II. S. Craigbilly 
M'Millen Mr J. Browndodd 
Marshall Mr W. Belfast 
M'Donnell J. Surgeon, Do. 
M'Crum S. esq. Do. 
M'Lenahan Mr \V. Do. 
Moore Mr W. Larne 
M'Henry Mr J. Larne 
M'Dowell Mr A. B.carry 
M'Skimin Mr S. C.fergus 

jM'Cammon Mr A. Do. 

i 

Munfoad Mr J. W. abbey 
M'Afee Mr D. Do. 
Major J. esq Duneybruer 
Magill Mr M. Ballaly 
M'Bride Mr W. Clady 
M'Bride Mr S. MoneyVian 
M"Comb Mrs. Lisbum 
M'Cornb Mr W. Whitebouse 
Manning Mr W. Belfast 
M Caw Mr Daniel, Straid 
Mulligan Miss, Derrylough 
M'Ninch Miss, Dunseveiic 
M'Murry Mr J. Mountnorris - 
M'Kee Mr Francis, do. 
M*Gown Rev, IWm., do. 
M' Gown Mr John, do. 
Moore Mr J. Kilraghts 
Moore Mr L. B.bullion 
Moore Mr J. Do. 
M'Clune Mr J. Belfast 
M'Kee Miss, Dungannon 
M-Kittrick Mr O. Dundalk 
M-Kittrick Dr. Loughgall 
M'Kittrick Mr J. Charlemcnt 



IBERS NANTES. 

M'Cormick Mr T. Katesbridge 
Mulligan Rev. J. L,sligan 
M-Main Mr V/m. do. 
M' Curdy Mr A. Desart 
M'Curdy Mr R. do. 
M'Curdy Mr James, Cavan 
M'Curdy J. esq., Migiligan 
M'Nally Rev. P. Loughgill / 
M'Nally Mr J. Mount-Druid 
M'Cunn 3^1 r J., D.minning 
Murphey Miss, Crana 
MGown Miss, Outil 
MCalden Rev. A., Coleraine 
Macilwain J. M. D. do. 
M'Kee Mrs. do." 
MNearry Miss do. 
Mitchell Mr A. do. 
Moore Mr D. Lisnagat 
Major S. esq. T.brisland 
Major Miss, Criggan 
M'Clintock W. esq. Derry 
Moore Rev. "William do. 
Moore William esq. do. 
M'lver Mr B. Downpatrick 
M'llwain Mi\ J. Ballymena 
M'Kenzie Mr W. Coleraine 
M Kenzie Mr. Jas. do. 
M'Ghie Mr J. F. Ballyalton ; 
M'llwain Rev. J. do. 
M' Knight Miss, Greenfield I 
M'Connell Mr J, Kiikeel 
M'Greavy Rev. Jo dp. 2 
M'Neeiy Miss, Giassdrummond 
M'Kibbin Mrs. Analong 
Mofret Rev J. Tullamore 
M'Mailan Mr O. Castlewellan 
M-Mulian Mr P> do. 



Murray Mrs. W, 
Moore Miss, Moorelodge 
Marshall Mrs., Caledon 
M'Kean Mr. R., Armagh 
M'Kean Mr H. do. 
M'Kew R. esq., do. 
M' Williams W. esq., do. 
M 'Williams Mr W. junr., do. 
M'Kinstry R. esq. do. 
M'llree Mrs T., Lodge 
Maywood Miss, Cross-keys 
Mackay J. esq. jun. Armagh 
Mackay H. esq., Knockmore 
MKenzie Mr A., Dunover 
M'Kinney Mr. T. Ballyvesey 



SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. 

Dungannon M Key Rev. X, Anaghlone 



M'Coy Mr D., Gartconey 
Mllherran Mr N., do. 
M'llheran Mr A., Ballymena 
M'lvickar Mr A., do. 
Moor Rev. D., Markethill 2 
Moore Mrs, Glenville 
M'Kinney Mr. X, CarinafF 
M'Aferson Mr C, Carinmoan 
M' Curdy Mr E., Kerracroon 
M* Arthur Mr G., C.dawson 
Mac Loskie Mr P., Bellaghy 
Mullan Mr X, Dungannon 
M'Nown Mr X, Bishopscourt 
M'Clenehan Miss E., R.friland 



Mathewson Mr X, Letterkenny Murphy Mr J., Moarget 



M'Connell J. esq., Belfast 
Mains Miss, do. 
Mains Miss, Tanderagee 
Mooney Mr X. Belfast 
M'Connell Mr S., do. 
Macartney Mr B. W., do. 
M'Master Mr C. Armagh 
M-Kenna Rev. J., do. 
M'Geough W. esq., Dramville 
M'Geough Dr., Moneymore 
M'Cormick X esq., C.town 
M'Cormick Mr J. Tallykeel 
M'Kenzie Mr X Dunseveric 
M ; Kenzie Mr N., do. 
M'Kee Rev. T. Castlewellan 
M'Veay Mr X, do. 
Mackay Mr J. Bryansford 



M'Henry Mrs., Belfast 
M'Henry Mr D., do. 
Miller Mr X, do. 
M' Do well Miss, Springfield 
M'Conaghy Mrs. B., Carincark 
M'Farland Mr. J. Billy 
M'Farland Mr W.X, Aghadoey 
M'AfTee Dr., Currasheskan 
M'Mullan Mr P., B. money 
M'Kage Miss M.A., do 
M'Creary Mr J., Doagh 
Madden Mr W., Killrea 
Madden Rev. B., Toome 
M'Master Dr., Antrim 
M-Bride Mr J., Ballyclare 
M'Cauley Mr J., Loughgili 



M'Coy Mr X, Castle domain 
M'Mullan Rev. W., Killmegan Morris F.A. esq., Wood Cottage 
M'Gregor, Mr D., Coleraine n 

M'Erlane Mr E., P.glenone Neilson Rev. W. D.D. M.R.Li., 
M'Clean Mr W., Ballymoney Belfast 



XVUi SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. 

Nugent A. esq., Portaferry O'Neill Rev. P. Ballycastle 
Netterville Miss Dunshaughlin O'Neill J. Surgeon Cookstewn 



Nevin W. M.D., Down 
Kevin Mr J., Ballyajion 
Nevin Miss, Caruaff 
Newburgh Mrs., Deny 
Norris Miss, Cloeyimn 
Norris Miss M., do. 
Newell Mrs,, Rathfriland 
Newell Mr T\, B.clenden 
Nimmock Mr J., Colerain 
Newell Mr W., Dungannon 
Neilson J.A. M D., Dundalk 
Nelson Mr Vv r ., N.ards 
Neilson Dr., do. 
Nelson Mr T., Islandmagee 
Nelson Mr J., Larne 
Nelson Mr R., Cfergus 
Nicholson Mr R.,Kilkeel 
Nichols Major, 72d Regiment 
Nicholson H. esq., Derry , 
Ncttsam Miss, Maghera 
Newcomen L. esq., Rockville 

Tul- 



O' Connor A. esq., Belfast 
O'Shaughnessy Mr J., Dundalk 
O'Farrel Mr P., Newry 
O'Mullan Mr D., Drumagee 
O'Hare Rev. T., Newry 
O'Neill Mrs., Ahoghill 
O'Flinn Mr D., Tullymore 
O'Reilly W.P. esq., D.adee 2 
Orr Mrs J., Belfast, 
Orr Mr. W., Ballywalter 
Orr Dr., Kircubbin 
Orr Miss, Drurafad 
Orr Dr., Greyabbey 
Orr Mr W. r Belfast 
Orr Mr W., Bally money 
Orr A. esq., Keeley 
O'Hara Miss Rock vale 
O'Hara A, esq., Crebilly 
O'Hara H. esq., Ballymena 
Oulton Rev. C. Coldou 
O'Cain Mr F., Kilcubei* 
O'Raw W. Surgeon Belfast 
O' Raw Mr F., Ballymena, 
O' Dougherty Mr J., Derry 



O'Neill Hon. John M. P. 

lymore Lodge 

O'Hanlon Counsellor W.point Osborne N. esq, Silverwood 
Ogilvie W. esq , Ardglass castle p 



Ogilby W. esq., Garva 
Olpherts Mrs. Armagh 
Oliver J. esq., do. 
Oldfield Rev. J., Lurgan 
O'Neill Lieut. 85d Regt. 
Owens H. esq., Strabane 
Owens J. esq., Wholestone 
Owens J. esq., Tildarg 
Over en Miss, W. Point 



Phelps S. esq., Limerick 
Prentice J. esq., Newry 
Persse D. esq. Rathmullen 
Pike J. esq., Woodmount 
Page W. esq., Dundalk 
Pax ton W. esq., Rathfriland 
Parkinson S. esq., Down 
Perry Mr S. Ballymoney 
PkknoJl Cap:., Edencottage 



SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. 



Pries Mr J., Baliinlay 
P rice Mr J. jun„ do.. 
Price Miss, do. 
Price Lieut. R.N., Buncrana 
Peacock Miss Cuppidale, 
Peacock Capt., Glenbank 
Phelps Mr J. Mbyallen, 
Penny Mr J., Bally mena 
Pringle Miss, Downpatrlck 



Patterson Miss Qracefield 
Patterson W. esq,, do. 
Pursse Mr H., Ballybrick 
Peebles & Kinley, D.gannon Z 
Peebles Mr H. .Belfast 
Patteson Miss, Cookstown 
Patterson J. esq., Bally are 
Park Mr J., Haw 
Porter Mr H.," Monesland 



Puxley Miss M. A., Rathfriland Pax ton Miss Aughnacloy 



Prentice Mrs. A*, Armagh 
Preston Miss Derry 
Pusefoy Miss, do. 
Parker Mr S., Jennyford 
Palmer Mr W., Belfast 
Purcell Mr F., N.Limivady 
Patterson Rev. E., Ramelton 
Patterson Mr A., do. 
Porter Rev. R. L., Portnorris 
Pagh Miss, C. Shanaghan 
Peoples Mr. X, Letterkenny 
Park Mr \V., Deny 
Plunket Rev. T., N.L.vady 
Phillips Mr 1 J., Dunadery 
Patterson Mr S., D.patrick, 
Peebles M r J., JLisclamerty 
Philson Mr S., Dromardagh 
Porter Mr E., Belfast* 
Pollock Mr. J., Eankershill 
Pollock Mr G. } Hollywood 
Philson A. esq., Down 
Patterson T. esq., Grayabbey 
Patterson Mr G., do 
Perry Mr R., Ballyclamper 



Potts Miss, Cappy 

Pomeroy N. C. esq., Sylvan Vale . 

Q 
Quin Mr P., Newry 
Quail Miss Tobermoney , 
Quail Mr T., do. 
Quin Rev. J., Coleraine 
Quigg Mr B., do. 

R 

Ruxton J. F. esq., Ardee 
Rankin D. esq., Heath field 
Rice T. esq., Coleraine 
Rice T. esq., jun., do. 
Rice Mr N., Dundalk 
Rice Mr R., Bally clare 
Ramsey J. esq., Belfast- 
Ramsey Miss. Cookstown 
Ramsf$ !!■: II., Kilbride 
Eussel Mr J., Croagh 
Rentol A. M.D. M. Cunningham 
Rooney Mr P., Dundalk 
Raphael Mr A., Gilgorm 
Ralston Miss, Glenstall 
Ralston Mr G., do. 
Rankin Miss, B.wiilan 



Perry Mr A., do. 

Patten A. Surgeon, Tanderagee Ptamadge Mr A., Finvoy 

Patterson A. esq., Mason lotfge Ritchy Miss, Yew-park 



XX SUBSCRIBERS 

Rowan Mr J., Doagh 
Rainey Mrs J. P.glenone 
Rea C. esq., Rathmulhn, 2 
Robinson Mr H., Glenwhirry 
Ray Mr J., Ballydonnelly 
Robinson Mr R., Dervock 
Ryan Rev. A. H., Armagh 
Reilly Mr J., Blackwatertown 
Rux Mr D., do. 
Rea Mr T., Islandreagh 
Reford C. esq., Antrim 
ReidMr J., Belfast 
Rowan Mr R., do. 
Redfern Mr J. do. 
Russell Mrs. Ballylesson 
Robinson Mr T. Ballyclamper 
Russell Mr J., Belfast 
Rea Mrs., do. 
Russell Mrs., Ballygraney 
Richardson J. esq., Lisburn 
Richardson N. esq., do. 



KAMES. 

Ross Surgeon B., 50th Regt. 
Ross Mr H., Belfast 
Ross Mr R., Doagh 
Ross Dr. Ballymena 
Reford Mr J., Belfast 
Robinson Rev. W. N.T.limivady 
Reid J. esq., Derry 
Rutledge F. esq., Clady 

s 
Stuart Hon. Mrs, Palace, Armagh 
Stuart Hon. Mrs A., Woodmount 
Sewart Colonel, Killymoon 
Stuart J. esq., Grace hill 
Stuart Mr R., Ballycastle 
Stuart Mr A., do. 
Stuart Mr W., Ballintoy 
Stuart Miss, do. 
Stuart Miss E., do. 
Stuart Miss, Ballintoy demesne 
Stuart Mr J., Kilmahamack 
Stuart Mr J., Belfast 



Richardson Miss J., Cookstown Stuart Mr W., do. 
Riddle Mr J., Belfast Stuart Miss, Carrickfergus 

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TO SUBSCRIBERS, 



Owing to unforeseen circumstances, the publication of this 
Volume has been retarded longer than the author expected ; yet still 
a number of signatures were obtained too late to be inserted in 
their proper places. In the arrangement of the names alpha' 
betically, a few inaccuracies unvoidaabhi occurred : the names 
thus omitted, are also inserted below* 

a Caldwell Mr J. Ballymoney 



Aljeo Mr J., Belfast 
Allen Miss, Dunover 
Allen Mr J. Ballywalter 
Armour Mr S., Belfast 
Adair Mr H., Ballyvernon 
Agnew Mr J., Groomsport 

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Blackney Dr., Donaghadee 

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Casement H. esq., Belfast 

Cummins esq., Armagh 

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Crai^Mrs., Tildarg 



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Gillchrist Mr T. jun., Ballydoch 
Gillen Mr R., Ballintoy demesne 

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Henderson Mr J. jun. Belfast 
Hanley R. , esq., Carrickfergus 
Hill Mrs. Templeastragh 



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Hunter Mr H. Ganaby , M'Master Mr J., Calhome 



Ireland Miss, Falls 
Ireland Mr R, Belfast 
Ireland Mr J., do, 

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Johnston Mrs W. Belfast 

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King M. esq , Dungiven 
Keenan Mr J. C, Belfast 
King Dr., Moy 
King Mr W., Trimra 
King Mr L., Castlewellan 
Kirk Miss, Anaghlone 
Kirk Mr W., Belfast 
Kennedy Mr J., Belfast 
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Killen Rev. W., Doran's rock 
Klophel Mr W. B-master Derry 
Kerr Mr W., Clough Water 
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Kean Mr D., Rathfriland 
Kean A, esq., A.valaugh 
Kirkpatrick Mr W., Drumons 

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Leckey Mr A, K.L.vady 



M'Cullough Mr W., Lurgan 
Mills Mr S. W., Belfast 

Kelson J. C. esq., CharlemontS 
Kelson Mr J., Bally willan 
Keill Mr J., Ballymoney 

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Ogle F. esq., do. 
O'Sheill W. esq. MagiHigaa 

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Park Rev. R. A. M., B.money 



Quin Mr. J., 



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Belfast 



Sloan Mr J. E., Belfast 
Smyth Miss Ardmore 
Sharp Mr R, Capcastle 
Sharp Mr A., Drumahhk 

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Toole Mr W., Belfast 
Thomson R. H. esq., Mourne 
Templeton Rev. S* A.M., Finvoy 

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Wells Mr A. Cavan 
Wright Mr T., Culbrim 
White Mr J., Macfinn 



Martin Rev. A., Bellinagore 

Mac Mullan Mr. S. W. Belfast Waller A. Esq FerestfieW. 

Moore Dr., Ballymoney 



ARGUMENT- 

Invocation of the Genius of Erin — of the Muses— Giant's Cause- 
way — Question whence it originated — Vicissitude and annihila- 
tion general through nature, according to the Newtonian hypo- 
thesis — View of the distant landscape from Aura mountains— 
Lissanore castle— Address to Eustace — Knocklaid, Bengore, 
Pleaskin— Morning — Legend of Ben-an-danan — Odin — The 
giants changed to stone — Traditions, general and hereditary- — 
Druids — Effects of superstition more potent, among the vulgar, 
than the power of revealed religion — Ignis fatuus — Wizards- 
Fames — Banshees — Shanescastle — Temple- astragh — Fata Mor- 
gana — Effect of the mermaids' music on the enchanted island- 
Instinct of fish and sea-fowl — Margy — Dunluce— Benmore— 
Carrick-a-rede — Dunseveric — Hospitality of the inhabitants of 
the county of Antrim — Progress of their civilization and im- 
provement — Renovation essential to preserve the existence of the 
universe — Renovation eternal — Conclusion* 



POETIC SKETCHES, Sec. 



INSCRIBED TO JAMES M f DONNELL, ESQ., M.-D. BELFAST. 



Genius of Erin ! in my natal clime, 
Where Drummond's harp awoke to strains sublime, 
Awake once more ! the magic note prolong, 
And guide the mazes of descriptive song. 
O lead, enchantress ! where the muse pervades, 
By caves and cliffs, by moles and colonnades ; 
Or borne where ocean's bilftfws darkly roll, 
When whirlwinds roar, and tempests rend the pole- 
Pent in wild glen, or on the hill of storm, 
Still let me hail thy bland celestial form ! 

Hail, Dalriada, to my soul most deaf, 
Thou grand romantic region of the sphere ! 



3 NOETIC SKETCHES O^ 

While here, amid thy scenes grotesque and wild, 
He wends, the Muses' lonely artless child, 
(Where rocky labyrinths, stupendous steeps, 
Embattled capes, dark frowning o'er the deeps — 
Basaltic battlements, and proud arcades, 
Impending cliffs, and storied colonnades — 
Where surge-scoop'd antres, thunder-splinter'd spires^ 
" With all the wonders of volcanic flres," 
Tramed in the great omnigenous design, 
Rise at that fiat, O Omnipotent! of thine — ) 
Descend, seraphic daughters, from on high I 
O leave your bright pavilion in the sky ! 
This wonderous fane of nature ye have trod — 
Now bring again afflatus back from God ; 
O let that energy to him be given, 
That flash electric from the fire of heaven ! 

O thou, whose deep researches can explore 
Each various stratum of the mineral ore ! 
Has fiery earthquake, bursting from its spasm, 
Conflicting upwards, oped the dreadful chasm? 
In fierce volcano from the centre thrown 
The lava that produced the pillared stone? 
Did plastic nature, in the flood of flame, 
Each hexagon, concave, and convex, frame ? 
Then, did refrigeration s gelid power 
Freeze the dense column, pyramid and tower ? 



THE GIANTS' CAUSEWAY, &C. 

Now, while thy philosophic eyes expand 
Through air, through ocean, and the solid land. 
Let superstition hold its error still — 
Behold the wonders of creative skill ! 
Where worlds unnumbered in their orbits wheel. 
That each attraction or repulsion feel, 
Their emanations shouldst thou not perceive, 
Instinctive reason teaches to believe : 
Then go, like Newton roam the viewless sphere*. 
And span the starry-girdled hemispheres ; 
See what immensities of magnitude 
Plunge in the vortex of vicissitude ! , 
The grand progression shall be thine to rate. 
That hastens nature to her final fate ; 
Until nonentity expand her womb, 
And vast creation in the void entomb. 

Ye, who have felt that glow of living flame 
Whose wing transports through nature's boundless 

frame, 
Shoot from above, like halo of the levin, 
To waft the stayless mind through earth and heaven- 
Say what creative beauties then arise, 
Ye favoured few who paint their energies ! 

Imagination, spread thy airy wing ! 
Bid glowing Fancy mount, and sky-ward spring ; 



10 POETIC SKETCHES OF 

While the rapt Muse, from Aura's purpled height, 
Beholds the landscape robed in living light. 
Here, Lissanore, she hails thy lordly towers, 
Thy winding vistas and thy rosy bowers ; 
Thy gardens gemmed with flowers of every die, 
Where wandering zephyrs breathe their softest sigh ; 
Thy woodlands, mantled in unfading green ; 
Blue in the vale thy lake of silver sheen; 
Where teems young Spring primeval Eden round, 
And wakes to life and rapture sight and sound ; 
W T here Summer comes, in fairer blooms arrayed, 
And brighter beauties, to thine honoured shade; 
Where fruitful autumn, wreathed with golden grain, 
Spreads rich luxuriance o'er thy wide domain : 
Even stormy Winter, brightening through his glooms, 
Averts his frown from thy perennial blooms. 

All hail, Macartney ! deign to hear the strains, 
Thou fair ascendant of these woods and plains ; 
Within thy halls of hospitable state, 
O emulate thy predecessor great ! 
And may thy virtues ray those beams divine, 
That lit his soul, from wisdom's holy shrine, 
Whose deeds illustrious, and immortal fame, 
Devolve on thee, and dignify thy name. 

Tar from thy " hill of caves," through liquid air, 
Say, Eustace, have thy visions wandered there? 



THE GIANTS' CAUSEWAY, &C. 11 

Or has thy muse to Danan's cliffs been borne, 

When burst the gates of summer's golden morn,— 

When, on the concave of pellucid blue, 

The god of day his chariot rolls in view ? 

O'er earth and air, and o'er the watry way, , 

Beam shoots on beam interminable day, 

As if the cloudless glories of the sky, 

Now all unveiled before each mortal eye, 

Had to the circlet of the welkin given 

The dazzling regions of expanded Heaven : 

Where dark Knocklaid rears high his cloudy crest*. 

Where Bengore bares his diamond-studded breast, 

Or where, embossed with many a burnished gem, 

Pleaskin wears his flaming diadem ? 

There has the king of smiles looked down from noon, 

To light thy muse through Neptune's grand saloon, 

Where sea-nymphs wait to waft the fairy hours, 

To guide the wanderer through their coral bowers; 

Where thousand gems, from each translucent cave> 

Ray the cerulean mirror of the wave. 

Shall her erratick wing emerge again, 

And bring thy wond'rous day-dream of the main ? 

Look from these capes, when o'er dark ocean's bedj 
The sable queen has all her horrors spread : 
What beams break forth, what lambent lights illume, 
When bursts the winter storm on midnight's gloom ! 



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When scarce a gleam the billows' path has told, 

Or round the storm-tost bark is faintly rolled. 

Save when the lightning shoots its fitful glare, 

To brush the dreadful visage of Despair — 

Where, far at sea, o'er liquid mountains driven, 

That swell infuriate in the scowl of Heaven, 

The hapless seaman climbs the straining shroud, 

Above the bolt that vollies in the cloud. 

Amid the shock of elemental strife, 

He breathes farewell to all he loved in life: 

To bless his widowed wife and orphans dear, 

He wings a prayer beyond the storm's career :— 

u O were I cast upon some friendly strand, 

Kear to the precincts of my native land \ 

I sleep in death, beneath the yawning wave,— 

Have mercy, Heaven, and e'er I perish, save I" 

Hard on his bosom beats the frost-barb'd sleet, 

The foamy spray is dashing round his feet ; 

— - When lo ! in mercy's garb, along the deep, 

The angel, Hope, comes from the breeze-swept steep. 

Illumes his soul with all her radiant forms, 

To brave the might of congregated storms. 

As veers his bark, he views the cliffs from far, 

And owns the guidance of each beacon star ; 

Turns to the friendly gleam his shattered prore, 

And hails the rock-bound monarchs of the shore* 



THE GIANTS' CAUSEWAY. 13 

Thus, Danan ! still prevailing legends say, 
When Scandinavians forced resistless way, 
Launched from the stormy billows of their coast, 
And scaled thy steeps, a dark-browed warlike host, 
Then Finnian squadrons on thy mount stood forth, 
Against those giant-sorcerers of the north ; 
Then hosts with hosts in dreadful combat close, 
And Fion's steel bursts on his mail-clad foes ; 
Rushed the red torrents in impetuous flood, 
And died thy hoary cliffs in hostile blood. 
Triumphant still the sun-burst banners fly — 
Each shock of Erin's steel was charged with victory I 
— Till Odin rose : — the God's tremendous form 
Shook heaven and earth with dire terrific storm ; 
On roaring whirlwinds, red-winged lightnings hiss 5 
His thunders volley through the vast abyss : 
Then magic's loudest tempest rocked the world, 
Broke on thy mount, and hell's enchantments hurled^ 
Then whirled each spell-bound blast with whelming 

sweep, — 
Bore kings and hosts and heroes to the deep ; 
And swept whole cohorts, in their serried might, 
Far, far below thy altitude of height. 

Transformed to stone, behold each warrior brave> 
The guardian champion of his cliff and cave, 
Bound in the rocky fabric doomed to dwell, 
Till Heaven shall break the adamantine spell. 



14 POETIC SKETCHES OF 

Idols of hell, in superstitions mailed, 
How have your rites o'er every land prevailed ! 
What faithless legends, beldames, have ye told. 
To wake the lemures on the midnight wold ! 
What formless phantoms yet beset the path, 
By dreary desert, or by mountain rath, 
Where sleeps the mighty dead beneath his cairn, 
Curtained with blooming heath, and waving fern I 
The mazy windings of the dark defile, 
The frowning aspect of the mouldering pile, 
The cromleach circling round its moss-clad stone- 
Each bodies forth a genus of its own, 
To stalk abroad, and wheel the dismal round, 
On earth by sight, or in the air by sound. 
Thus ignis fatuus Hits across the moor, 
To mock the brain-sick sense of wandering boor; 
Swift, as he marks its fleeting beams relume, 
The fugitive delusion shuts in gloom. 
Thus, from her crystal palace, wrapt in woe, 
The shadowy spectre glides of Nenie Roe, 
And from her white thorn tree that skirts the wood, 
Shrieks o'er the ruin where Shanescastle stood. 
Thus flies Dismay from the infernal whoop 
Of wizard orgie, or of fairy troop ; 
Each dwarf his moon-struck vision magnifies, 
To moulded phantom of gigantic size : 
Or, bowed beneath the agonies of dread, 
Hears demons hideous howl around his head ; 



THE GIANTS' CAUSEWAY, &C 1* 

And even when he his native cot descries, 
Still Doubt retains her faithless scrutinies. 
But what had the delirious rustic feared ? 
A sullen sound, that through the desart veered ; 
"Twas but some tangled brake by lonely rill, 
The blast had swept, that sought the haunted hill, 
— And thus the wildered pilgrim turns to gaze, 
Where bursts yon ruined fane in living blaze, 
With such amaze as smote the prophet's sight, 
When the Lord's angel, robed in holy light, 
Whose uncreated beam the mount illumed, 
Burned in the bush, yet left it unconsumed. 
Will the enthusiast wait the symbol given, 
To hold mysterious intercourse with Heaven ?— 

But now the darkness from the landscape rolls ; 
The fleecy clouds are slumbering -round the poles ; 
Her chambers in the sky the moon unveils, 
And through her azure noon the wanderer sails. 

Mark where yon willow bends to brush the stream— 
'Tis Ellen's ghost glides on the lunar beam ! 
Poor helpless wretch ! 'twas there she wont to rove, 
When frenzy fired her dream of hopeless love; 
There would she to the lonely wild complain, 
Till moony madness burst her burning brain. 
How could the maniac then her footsteps guide? 
Plunged in the flood, the desperate suicide 



16 Noetic sketches g? 

Sought rest in death, — but ah ! she sought in vaia j 

Heaven gave her spectre back to earth again ; 

And when the midnight winds around conspire, 

She passes on the blast, a form of nre ; 

When the moon climbs yon zenith in the sky, 

Her shade sails on the silver vapour by, 

Or flits along the glade its wayward road, 

Till mercy's mandate issues forth from God. 

What time the setting sun his level sheen 
Rolls on the sleeping wave and deep serene, 
Each wondering swain hath heard, from rocky dell, 
The dulcet notes of mermaid's magic shell ;— 
'Twixt sea and sky, poised on the cloudy verge, 
Hath seen the fairy isle from ocean's depths emerge* 
Its streamy lawns, its fields of greenest shade, 
In waving woods and spreading bowers arrayed, 
The new Morgana to his raptured eyes 
Floats on the calm, where thousand-tinted die* 
Streak lofty towers, extended embrasures, 
Stupendous arches, grand entablatures ; 
Then shuts in shadows of the silent even, 
Evanished like a mimic glimpse of Heaven. 

'Tis now the opening blush of orient day ; 
Along the rippling wave the zephyrs play ; 
The renovating touch of morning's spring 
The early lark hath hailed on dewy wing« 



THE GIANTS' CAUSEWAY, &C. 17 

Breaks forth the warbling of the vernal wood, 
The playful gambols of the silver flood,— 
As now, from winter's dreary bondage free, 
All nature's children join the jubilee. 

The fisher now has wended down the steep, 
Launches his boat, and " trolls the finny deep j" 
Else from the altitude of beetling cliff, 
Propels the salmon to the netsman's skiff. 
While showering pebbles in the wave are hurled, 
On every side the capturing net is furled ; 
In vain the captive beats the flaxen maze ; 
His piercing eye is fixed in fear-struck gaze : 
No more he threads smooth Lubar's sable sounds^ 
No more up Banna's roaring cascade bounds, 
No more along the watery verge he'll glance, 
Nor curve his Springy tail in liquid dance. 
Ah ! now they drag him from the fatal lock,— 
Unpitying, hurl him on the flinty rock : 
Stretched on the pointed crags he gasping lies, — 
He pants— the struggling victim throbs, and dies I 

Now from his eyrie Dhugall downward skims, 
And o'er the swelling surge elated swims : 
He marks the course the leader salmon steer, 
And warns the boatman when the shoal is near. 
The grateful fisher, conscious of his aid, 
The severed entrails on the rock has laid : 



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With flap and croak he vindicates his prey, 
And bears the gory spoil on wing away. 

Now rous'd from grey Benmore's stupendous height, 
The soaring eagle wings his rapid flight : 
Through the expanse of Heaven behold him fly— 
The sullen pirate of the rock and sky. 
Around his beak what radiant glories gleam !— - 
His piercing eye-balls brave the solar beam : 
Till near the heath-clad ridges of Knocklaid, 
Swift as a shaft of light from Heaven displayed, 
Prone down he darts to rob the harmless dam, 
And from her bosom rends her tender lamb ; 
Or, fiercely pouncing on the timid hare, 
♦He mounts again the boundless realms of air, 
Wheels to his eyrie's cloudy altitude, 
And tears the prey to feed his callow brood. 

Gigantic precipice ! at his command 
Who first from chaos formed the sea and land, 
At his omnific mandate thou didst rise, 
Lifting thy rugged columns to the skies ; 
From age to age has man beheld thee stand, 
The proud memorial of th* Almighty hand. 
The arrowy flash hath smote thy flinty brow, 
The pealing bolt hath rocked thy base below,— 
Nor have prevailed ; thy adamantine piers 
Still brave the tempest's shock, the waste of years ; 



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Bat though so long they mock the ocean-gust, j 

Grey time will scoop the fabric down to dust: 
Thoa 'midst the world's strong bulwarks shall be riven. 
And crushed beneath the harbinger of Heaven ! 

Where Dubh ni Valone, with prophetic eye, 
Glimpsed on thy visions, dark futurity ! 
At Bona Margy's roofless mouldering pile 
The pensive muse shall sadly pause a while t 
'Mid gloomy vaults and monumental stones, 
The frail memento of their heroes' bones, 
She stoops, the changeful retrospect to trace 
That shrouds the mighty Dalriadan race, 
While fancy's eye, from many a heaving moundj 
Sees deathless warriors from oblivion bound — 
Sees Sourlebuoy, on Aura's blood-drenched height, 
Recoil, and rally with resistless might, 
Lift high the brand his foes had feared to feel, 
And hurl, omnipotent, the storm of steel i 

Ah, woe, DunluGe ! for since that fatal day* 
Thy feudal pride has faded fast away : 
Yet time has been, when o'er thy proudest tower, 
High streamed in air the banners of thy power; 
And when redoubled ranks advanced to shock 
Each martial fortress round thy sea-girt rock, 
Thy mail-clad warriors rose, in serried might, 
And flamed the signal of the coming fight : 



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Then pealed thy cannon o'er the erimsoned wave, 
And in thy fosse whole cohorts found a grave* 
Yet mercy reigned with thy victorious lord — 
The vanquished shared the banquet at his board: 
While kindness, prompt to every stranger's call, 
Gave welcome in thy hospitable hall. 
Then high-strung harps awoke the soul of sound. 
With dance, and song, and festive music round. 

Ah ! what avail the joys of wealth and power ? 
The foot of time has crushed thy firmest tower ; 
Now on thy ruins slender sea-pinks bloom ; 
And there, when night hangs down her veil of gloom, 
The lonely bird of ocean finds its rest, 
Hushed by the stormy billows of the west, 
That moan beneath thy dark basaltic walls, 
While rushing whirlwinds sweep thy roofless halls ; 
What piercing sounds are borne upon the gales ?->- 
Tis the Banshee, whose caoine wildly wails 
Thy valiant sons, englobed by rival hate, 
Who " set unclouded in the gulfs of fate." 
—Thy towers, that seemed a vista to the sky, 
Have bowed to earth, and in broad ruins lie ; 
Irike that stupendous pile on Shinar's plain, 
Great was thy fall — never to rise again ! 

Embodied thought, thou mute soliloquy ! 
In sad succession, let my spirit fly 



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To where Dunkerry, girt with crimson zone, 
Through thousand chambers mines to worlds un- 
known; . 
Where darkness hears the booming echoes roar, 
And caverned surges rock the pillared sliore. 
Or where, extended o'er yon dreadful deep, 
Hangs Reda's serial bridge from steep to steep. 
There oft the evening fisher, from his skiff, 
Beholds the genius of the lonely cliff 
Bound on the breeze, to swell the sea and wind — 
And flies the coming storm, a port to find. 

And thou, Dunseveric! round thy time-struck 
walls, 
The muse, when life was new, each bliss recalls ; 
Through memory's twilight each loved scene I find 
Reflected on the mirror of the mind: 
When Winter had assumed his surly reign, 
And bound all nature in a frozen chain, 
Then have I sat and watched the hoary sire 
Heap up the fragments of the evening fire ^ 
And, listening to his legendary tale 
Of moory mountain, or sequestered vale, 
Have felt my swelling heart for vengeance bound, 
When treacherous fury hemmed thy chieftains round ; 
And retrospection through the darksome years 
E'en now beholds him, as, with reverend tears 



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Recurring oft to the forgotten brave, 

He told the spot to find each nameless grave. 

Long had thy fortress every foe defied, — 
When Con-a-Goll to high Benbraden's side 
Summoned thy lord, (he was his kinsman near,) 
To feast three days, and chase the mountain deer. 
With hunt, with jocund harp, in wild delight 
Sped the first two ; but at the dead of night, 
From where Ben'vanagh frowns o'er Aughanloo, 
The warning elfin to Benbraden flew ; 
Awoke the slumbering prince with plaintive wail,- 
'Tis fairy Echlin, from Evanagh's vale ! 
Decoyed, in ancient time, while yet a child, 
With aerial spell, by wizard of the wild, 
Among the elves he tends their tiny queen ; 
And when impending woe, by him foreseen, 
Threatens his kindred, sadly comes, to show 
With boding shrieks, the dark approach of woe. 
What danger waits O'Caghan and his powers, 
When fairy Echlin haunts Benbraden's towers ? 

Rolled on the drowsy ear of lingering morn 
The swelling blast; of shrill-voiced bugle horn ; 
And many a chieftain now bestrides his steed, 
That ere yon sun goes down, in death shall bleed. 
But who thy depths, futurity, may scan ! 
Mysterious mazes', still unknown to man* 



THE GIANTS' CAUSEWAY, &C. 23 

Roused from his rye-grass lair in Aughanloo, 
On high the stag his branchy frontlet threw ; 
Away, away, with foot of air he bounds ! 
Breaks forth the opening yell of hundred hounds; 
Through moss and moor, in one promiscuous race, 
Rakes o'er his devious track the dizzy chace ; 
Loud on the breeze the din is eastward borne, 
Of hark and whoop, of clamorous hound and horn ; 
From cavern and ravine, from hill and dale, 
Deep-mingling echoes load the buoyant gale. 
First o'er the ridgy rampart, crag and knoll, 
He leads the scouring chace, brave Con-a-goll : 
His fleetest dog, dark, hairy-footed Bran, 
Pursues the panting stag across the Bann; — 
Now, desperate of escape, he stands at bay, 
Till gnawing bloodhounds tug his life away. 

From Bosca's tower the wily herald hies, 
Masking a traitor's heart in friendly guise, 
To bid Benbraden's prince and all his men 
To Dunlagh's feast, in Cruch-can-acho's glen. 
" The rise of former feud he did not know, 
That caused their ancient sires' best blood to flow i 
Then why should they an aimless strife prolong, 
Which rose at first, perhaps, from petty wrong ? 
But, might Benbraden's prince this day accord 
To share the joy-crowned shell with Bosca's lord, 



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No longer front to front, but side by side, 
Their clans should stem the death-red battle's tide-, 
O'Caghan and Mac Keon, whose line of yore 
Met never bloodless — meet in blood no more." 

While yet the seannach waited for reply, 
The grateful heart of Con-a-goll beat high : 
He bade his henchman bring the slaughtered deer, 
Slight tribute to exchange for festive cheer, 
And bear the antlered prize to Dunlagh's lord, 
The trophy of the chase, and not the sword ; — 
u And tell him I, with these my kinsmen, haste 
To hail his friendship, and to share his feast." 

That fatal noon, Dunlagh, in vengeful pride, 
Mustered his sept by Bosea's sable side : 
Beneath the mantle foroad, of saifiron sheen, 
Each dastard serf conceals the sharpened skean 5 
Waiting the hour when confidence has smiled, 
When peace on every brow sits reconciled, 
Upon the fated guests at once to start, 
And plunge them in each unsuspecting heart. 

Thus, sultry sunshine clothes the placid air 
With cheerful smiles — b«t death is lurking there 1 
Then meteors, bursting through their shadowy shroud, 
Break forth in terrors from the flashing cloud, 



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Dark, deep and long was Cruch-can-acho's glen, 
But far too short to hold five hundred men : 
On every verge they form a convex row,-— 
On this the clan Dunlagh, on that the foe* 
The feast is spread on the enamelled green, 

And now the cup of peace is circling seen : » 

But wherefore doth Dunlagh's pale visage lower, 
Dark as the cloud that holds the gathering shower? 
Why doth each kerne his mantle's fold cast by, 

And eye the guests with deadly scrutiny? * 

Fierce as the herald of the thunder's peal, 
Their ambushed skeans that dastard host reveal j 
And swifter than the crashing bolt has sped, 
Brave Con-a-Goll and all his kin lay dead ! 
The festal bowl, that half uneniptied stood, 
The reckless guests have mingled with their blood ; 
And loud exulting shout, and dying groan, 
Triumphant told the work of death was done, 

Benbraden, mourn ! around thy stately king, 
Mis chiefs no more shall close the jovial ring ! 
No more, on gladsome plain or mountain free, 
They wake the greenwood echoes joyously! 
- ; — Ah, fairy Echlin, from Evanagh's side, 
Thy bodings all too well are verified ! 
And there, Dunseveric, lies thy mangled lord I 
And did no pen the damning deed record ?-— — 
4 



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Shame to the brave ! on Erin's hallowed ground, 

No righteous sword to wreak the wrong was found ; 

Shame to the wise — that no indignant page 

Lays bare in native guilt th' assassin's rage ! 

The whitening bones bleached ghastly in the blast/ 

Till earth her leafy mantle o'er them cast : 

Green is the turf that shrouds their gory bed, 

And clowns, unconscious, o'er their relics tread. 

Oblivion, Balriada ! veils that crime, 

The u blocdiest picture in the book of time F 

Heroes of Erin ! o'er your silent urns 
In vain the sorrowing Muse recumbent mourns; 
Long, long cur hapless country may deplore 
Her fields made fertile with her children's gore ! 
Since first the savage Druid left his cell, 
While nature quaked beneath his guilty spell ; 
Muttering the impious charm, he darkly stood, 
To reek his murderous knife in human blood: 
The death-cry, echoing from the altar stc-ne, 
Soothed the grim idol on his cloudy throne. 
But slight the horrors of that darker time, 
Compared with later years of Christian crime, 
When tyrants, with repentance late and vain, 
Piled the grey cairn, or reared the Gothic fane; 
Mocking high Heaven with false contrition there, 
They filled the fretted aisle with formal prayer:— 



THE GIANTS* CAUSEWAY, &C. 27 

Yet, righteous Power i forgive their foulest deed, 
Let vengeance slumber, and let mercy plead; 
Reserve thy thunders for this age of light, 
Which wars with open eyes 'gainst truth and right. 
The first assassin, o'er his sacrifice, 
Disturbed the air with v deep repentant sighs ; 
But, when our brethren swell the crimson flood, — 
Our callous hearts, well pleased, pronounce it good; 
The only sorrowing tears our eyes afford, 
Fall when the victim 'scapes the lifted, sword. 
With fast and prayer we preface causeless war, 
With grateful hymns surround the conquering car,. 
As if insulting justice were a spell, 
Almighty grace to purchase, or to quell.— 
When martyred Freedom dies, our slaughters ceasg : 
*tfWe " make a solitude, and call it peace i" 

Then, though thy roofless halls dismantled stand, 
Where erst ambitious chiefs held rude command — 
Yet why,.Dunseveric! should thy sons repine, 
While humble peace and spotless hearts are thine? 
Through thy rude soil the smile of peace serene 
Benignant glows, and beautifies the scene ; 
No dark marauders, lurking for their prey, 
Molest the stranger on his nightly way ; 
No grim assassin lifts the coward knife, 
From guiltless sleep to drain the stream of life* 



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Secure of safety, there the simple sage 

Recounts eacb crime that brands the former age* 

Far from the ills that cruel war await, 

From sickening tumults, and intrigues of state, 

The maddening wheels of faction's blind career 

JShake not the precincts of his peaceful sphere. 

A want, or wish, his breast may stimulate 

To seek redress, or rise o'er humbler fate ; 

But, what is most to wealth and power denied, 

With these he is abundantly supplied — 

Sweet peace of conscience,- — undisturbed repose^— 4 

And virtue triumphs o^er his fleeting woes. 

Patient of labour, and inured to toil, 

With perseverance stubborn as thy soil, 

Content he cultivates, for scanty bread, 

The heath where haply his brave sires have bled. 

Blithe as the warbler hails the dappled east, 

ile wakes, and rises from his kindly rest ; 

Pursues the honest labours of the day, 

And trusts that Heaven his efforts will repay. 

And when the darker shade of eve descends, 

With plodding steps his course he homeward bends. 

And finds enjoyment in his humble cot, 

Calmly resigned to all his little lot. 

O DaJriada ! still thy dales can charm 
The breast which love and social kindness warm ; 



the. giants' CAUSEWAY, Si& 29 

There every trait of honest nature reigns, 
Which links each heart in friendship's mystic chains f 
And wakes thy sons, by sympathy of mind, 
To share in all the sufferings of mankind. 
There, lenient pity whispers to bestow ; 
Each shed finds shelter for some child of woe ; 
Circling the cheerful hearth at falling even, 
The guests of chance, by Heaven's direction gives, 
'Twere strange the various mingling groupe to trace* 
From where the beggar holds inherent place. 
No lone wayfaring stranger passes by 
Th' inviting latch, when night is on the sky ; 
The song, the humming wheel, attract his ear; 
Nor bolts ner bars forbid his entrance kere. 
The shattered veteran, and the shipwrecked tar, 
Enlarge, full garrulous, their feats in war ; 
The tuneless minstrel, and the rhymeless bard, 
Meet rude unjudging praise, (their best reward !) 
And, slighted in the rounds of polished ease, 
Astonished find, at last, their power to please. 
The love-lorn maniac, soothed to reason there, 
Forgets a while her visions of despair. 
Each human woe beneath the spacious sky 
Is solaced by condoling sympathy ; 
And all impelled by adverse fate to roam, 
Blegs, through thy clime, each hospitable home* 



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And chief, Dunseveric, still to memory dear ! 
On misery's cheek 's ? thine to dry the tear ; 
The hapless wretch whom wayward fancies chase> 
Delights to dwell among thy simple race. 
In crowded towns, the hooting rabble's jest, 
Deep-rankling fury goads his tortured breast ; 
But, in thy kindly huts or blithesome plain, 
The racking fumd sits lighter on his brain. 

Yet let the Muse retrace thy cultured scene, 
Where villas, cots, and hamlets intervene : — 
Yet, yet, the, roof paternal I review, 
Where first my lips the vital current drew -; 
And lingering there, each wonted haunt- survey, 
That strewed with flowers my happier infant way, 
Ere yet maturer 3'ears of toil began, 
Or growing cares had told me I was man. 
There first I felt the raptured thrill of jay, 
Enchanting Bloomfield ! o'er thy u Farmers Boy (*; 
Young fancy wooed the Muse to emulate 
Thy song of rural toils, so simply great. 
Immortal Burns, the Muse's sweetest child! 
I met thee first in yonder lonely wild : 
Next Goldsmith came, with Edwin's artless strain— 
And who so softly touched the lyre again ? 

— By Erin's genius raised on deathless wing, 
Moore wakes the hymn of Heaven on every string ; 



TH« GIANTS' CAUSEWAY, &C. 51 

Bat later on my ear that music came, 

When to our dales had spread his rising fame. 

Dull-wandering through the thorny ways of care, 
I ceaseless turn to bless those fields so fair ; 
And when sad woes my nightly visions nil, 
Remembrance wakes me on my native hill. 
Oft, where the shallow streamlet glides between 
The sloping primrose bank and daisied green, 
Bent o'er the glassy margin have I stood, 
And watched in sportive chase the finny brood. 
By tufted woodland, or by vocal glade, 
By blossomed hedge, or spreading hawthorn shade, 
I brushed with heedless steps, at misty dawn, 
The liquid diamonds from the glistening lawn ; 
And evening, crowned with incense-breathing flowers, 
Oft wooed my devious walk thrqugh twilight bowers, 
Till, peering o'er the eastward mountain's head, 
The moon her melancholy splendor shed. 

At such an hour might sightless Ossian hear 
The spirits of his kindred hovering near ; 
In such a landscape, sure, did Spenser dream, 
By branchy grove, deep glen, and haunted stream 
And in these dewy dells, so sweet and lone, 
His " Faery Queen' might fix her leafy throne; 
— But no 1 the regions of the elfin reign 
Must seldom hear the human foot profane 



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While frequent fence, and cottage* skirted glen, 

Mark these the cultivated haunts of men. 

Far from the busy field, where rustic Toil 

With patient ploughshare tills the stubborn soil, 

Remote in solitude the urchins play, 

Where heath untrodden clothes the mountain grey. 

And though the Muse, herself soft Fancy's child, 

May rove unquestioned o'er their kingdom wild, 

Yet more she loves to sing the barren hill 

Enriched by labours persevering skill ; 

W T here agriculture, with progressive stride, 

Stalks round the valley, climbs the mountain side, 

Reclaims the wastes of desolation's reign, 

And crowns the lichened crags with yellow grain. 

Misanthropy 1 thy cloudy visage clear, 
And own thy calumnies refuted here. 
A milder mood let these blest scenes impart ; 
Let softer feelings humanize thy heart ; 
Behold the teeming earth give promise bland, 
And bless the labours of the human hand 1 

Yet not too for exult in mortal might ; 
Nor let the deeper cause elude thy sight. 
Refreshing moisture, and expanding heat, 
With pregnant power thy stinted efforts meet: 
A thousand springs, beyond our power to trace, 
•Spread life throughout the vast extent of space, - 



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Where atoms, through mysterious nature's range, 
Roll in the wondrous harmony of change. 

Hail, Renovation ! thou whose plastic care 
Can worlds on worlds from age to age repair ; 
In vain the sage thy mystic laws would scan, 
Or seek to fathom the creative plan. 
The fool of knowledge casts his eyes abroad,— 
Soon lost in the immensity of God. r 
With impious pride, his dark desponding soul 
Would bound the boundless omnipresent whole : 
Earth, air, and ocean, and th' ethereal plain, 
His dream of doubt would bring to nought again.— 
What spark, O sceptic ! smote from darkling chance, 
Could kindle sun and moon in heaven's expanse? 
Could seeds of life, which every form assume, 
Spring forth at hazard from chaotic gloom ? 
No ! lit by him who fired yon starry train, 
And framed each link in being's endless chain, 
Gave matter motion, and attraction force, 
Made countless spheres to wheel their mazy coarse, 
— Lit by that one profound almighty Cause, 
These fulgent orbs obey his secret laws ; 
And these organic seeds perform his will, 
The frame of nature renovating still. 

Know, dupe of error, denizen of earth, 
That thou, e'en thou, receiv'st a second birth. 



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Think not, inclosed within the silent urn, 
Thy vital spirit shall io nought return : — 
To life or death immortal thou shalt rise, 
And haply find existence in the skies ; 
Where life eternal to the just is given, 
— A heaven >of joys, whose every joy is heaven. 

Fly, fly, ye shades that haunt his sombre night I 
Xet revelation's day-star glad his sight : 
O sweet religion, let thy power controul 
These doubts Cimmerian that beset his soul ! 
Pour in upon his heart thy mental day ! 
Light his bewildered spirit on its way J 

O thou who reign'st through ocean, earth and sky * 
Thou, who inhabitest eternity 1 
Thou know'st the frailty of our mortal frame,— 
Graft in our hearts thy ever-during name; 
And when from perishable dust set free, 
Give us to share eternal rest in thee ! 
Bright Faith, arise ! the gathering clouds dispel,— 
Thy piercing beam* shall burst the gates of hell, 
Rise on the regions of unfathomed gloom, 
And break the dismal barriers of the tomb ! 
Then to thy first almighty Source return, 
-Whsn hope and fear are past,— and there eternal burif?. 



NOTES. 

Page 9w — Let superstition hold its error still. 
The hypothesis current among the vulgar, is, that the Giants \ 
Causeway, and Fingal's cave in the island of Stafla, are the ex- 
tremities of an immense bridge, which formerly extended be- 
tween these two points, and was constructed by Fion Mae 
Cumhal and his gigantic associates, (called by the Scandivanians 
the sons of frost,) to facilitate his progress in a war undertaken 
against the natives of the opposite coast, in revenge of their fre- 
quent plundering expeditions into the Dalriadan territories. The 
bridge being completed, the enemy saw themselves completely 
at the mercy of these powerful invaders, and their country, in 
its turn, about to become the theatre of a predatory warfare ; and 
having no hopes of safety from their own efforts against an ene i 
my of such extraordinary prowess, they bad recourse to the 
gods, who were invoked by the Druidical priesthood, with the 
most powerful spells and incantations, to save them from the im- 
pending calamity. 

The Irish bards, who lose no opportunity of mignifying Fion, 
the hero of their fictions, represent his warlike achievements as 
tiaving even raised a degree of jealousy in the breasts of the Scan- 
dinavian deities. From their poetry and traditions it appears that 
these august personages were not without some apprehensions 
for their own dominion ; and had their doubts that the ambition 
o£ Fion might in time aspire to the conquest of the celestial 



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abodes. For their own preservation, then> as well as for the wel- 
fare of their worshippers, they interfered against the earth-born in- 
truders, and, by a timely, exertion of their power, destroyed the 
bridge which was to have afforded to Fxon a communication with 
the hostile coast. Not satisfied with this, they determined, in 
their wrath, to extinguish at once the power and existence 
of the Irish giants, and transformed the chief and his whole 
army to stone. 

Those of the peasantry who formerly officiated as guides to 
the Giants' Causeway, could have authenticated and illustrated 
every part of this wonderful relation, by proofs drawn from the 
surrounding scenery ; pointing out among the rocks, by name, 
at every turn, some of our petrified ancestors, whose dimensions 
are generally such as to justify in the eyes of their degenerate 
posterity the apprehensions of the hostile deities ; and though 
the hand of time has removed most of these basaltic evidences, 
and though the guides of the latter time are somewhat less cir- 
cumstantial in their details, yet the curious may have ocular de* 
monstration, even at this day, of the veracity of our traditionary 
historians. The four brothers, near Bengore, and other person- 
ages on different parts of the coast, still maintain their stations. 
The Causeway itself is a sufficient monument of Fion's abili- 
ties as an engineer ; and his chair is placed in a situation from 
which he might have a prospect of the work as it went on. His 
loom, theatre and organ are yet extant, showing that he un- 
derstood the arts of peace, as well as those of war. Gn the 
top of the hill above the Causeway is another testimonial, to which 
we must allow a due weight on the question. It is a pebble 
of a fathom or two in circumference, which bears the mark of a 
gigantic thumb and four fingers ; and the beholders must ae* 



NOTES. 3? 

knowledge it fortunate for the enemies of Fion, that his transfor- 
mation took place, (as is plain from the situation of the stone,) 
before he could launch from his tremendous grasp such a formi- 
dable weapon. 

The Irish, in their ancient poetry, treat the deities of the 
north with very little respect. They use them merely as instru- 
ments by which to raise the importance and exalt the character 
of their own mortal heroes, who are ennobled by the notice and 
enmity of celestial beings. From the frequent allusions to this 
enmity, we may gather abundant refutation of the opinion, that 
the Irish, at some period, professed the same religion with their 
northern neighbours. My reading has been extremely limited, 
on this, as indeed on most subjects j but I believe the most 
ingenious and acute inquirers into the manners and religion of 
the ancient Irish, are of opinion that the sun was the object of 
their worship. The round towers, or repositories of the sacred 
fire, so numerous in Ireland, we may therefore suppose to be 
the reliques of genuine Irish idolatry. One of these may be 
seen on Ram's Island, Lough Neagh, another at Antrim, a third 
in the burial-place of Drumbo, county o? Down, and (though 
last, not least,) a fourth at Armoy, near Lissanore Castle, in 
the vicinity of the Causeway. The cromlechs, with their sur- 
rounding circles of earth, we may regard, on the other hand, as 
remains of the Danish superstition, erected by them during 
their domination in Ireland. There is a very perfect specimen 
at Ballylessen, county of Down. It is a circular earthen ridge, 
enclosing perhaps four acres of ground* with the remains of a 
cromlech in the centre. Standing by this rude altar, we are 
strongly impressed with a sense of solitude and seclusion from 
the world ; for the height of the mound excludes the surrounding 
country from the view, except where it has been cut, to afford 



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an entrance to cattle, and where, in one or two places, the hand 
of time has partially lowered it. At the first sight of the in- 
closed plain, with its huge round stones, and circular bank, the 
beholder is forcibly reminded of " the circle of Loda> and the 
>arge stones of many virtues ;"• which are uniformly spoken of by 
the ancient Irish poets, rather as objects of enmity than adoration. 
One of the grandest of these cromlechs gives name to Mount 
Druid, the seat of the Rev. Robert Trail, near Ballintoy, 

Page 9. — Plunge in the vortex of vicissitude. 
That the sea-coast of the county of Antrim has been thrown 
into its present shape by some wonderful convulsion of nature, 
is apparent to every person of common observation. Geologists 
are unanimous in the opinion, that our shores owe their ex* 
traordinary conformation to the action of volcanic fire. The 
slow, but continual and certain transmutation of the elements 
that compose our terraqueous globe, is eloquently described by 
Dr. Drummond, in the notes to his poem of the Giant's Cause- 
way. This constant vicissitude of form is indeed particularly 
observable on the north-western coast of Ireland. It is evident 



* In Macpherson's translation of this passage, its peculiar 
application is lost. The original is as follows : 

" Air mullach bha crom chruth Loduinn, 
Is dacha mor nan iomadh buadh." 

*' On a top (or small height) was the circle of the form (or 
image,) of Loda, and the large stones of many virtues.'*" 

Report of the Highland Society, p. 134, 

MacphersonV translation is too concise to embrace the whole 
picture : — 

" On the top was the circle of Loda, the mossy stone of power.' * 

This is extremely obscure ; while the literal translation can- 
not fail to strike the reader as exactly descriptive of the crom- 
lechs of Ireland, 



>37 

■ 

NOTES. 39 

lliat some previous formation of the matter must have been dis *. 
arranged, in order to give the shore its present appearance ; and 
the occasional depression or entire removal of the strata, from 
the unremitting action of the air and water on the cliffs, ren- 
der it equally obvious, that the particles which are combined 
to produce the existing phenomena, will, in the gradation of 
time, be resolved into other combinations. The arrangement of 
the different strata, and the minuter features of the mineralogy, 
afford ample confirmation of this theory ; but it is rather out of 
my province to enlarge on this part of the subject. In advert- 
ing to the Newtonian hypothesis, I have used a common poetic 
license ; and it is evident, that the decay and annihilation ©f 
matter must be followed by a proportionate renewal and reno- 
vation, in order to preserve the existence of the universe, 

M * Hie law of decay,* says Playfair, ■' suffers no exception. 
The elements of all bodies were once loose and unconnected ; 
and to the same state nature has appointed that they should all 
•return. It affords no presumption against the reality of this 
proeess, that in respect of man it is too slow to be immediately 
perceived. The utmost portion of it to which our experience 
can extend, is evanescent in comparison with the whole, and 
must be regarded as the momentary increment of a vast progres- 
sion, circumscribed by no other limits than the duration of the 
world. Time cperforms the office of integrating the infinitesi- 
mal parts o£ which this progression is made up : it collects 
them into one sum, and produces from them an amount great* 
er than any that can be assigned/ 

M With respect to the general disintegration of the coast, there 
cannot be any question ; though in some places, where it i* 
guarded by dykes and basaltic mounds, the detritus is not so ap-4 
}*rent. The steps of decay may be distinctly traced in CavehiU and 



40 NOTES. 

the Knockagh, and on the shores of Carrickfergus and Larne* 
Some of the gigantic columns of Ballygelly already totter to 
their fall, and the shores to the W. of Garron point exhibit aw- 
ful proofs of the ravages made by the destroyer. The fall of 
columns at Fairhead, within the memory of persons now living, 
has carried away nearly an acre of surface ; and the spectator has 
only to behold that grand promontory to be convinced that the 
whole base of it is a mass of ruins. The base of the cliffs at 
Port NofFer are strewed with a loose debris, and the ground be- 
neath is sometimes deeply furrowed by the fall of rocky frag- 
ments from above. The isolated rocks on which the castles of 
Dunseveric and Dunluce stand, have mouldered from beneath 
the walls, and in many places have left their foundations exposed 
and bare. Dr. Davy has observed, in his geological lectures, 
that at Ben-evanagh, a high basaltic hill in the county of Deny, 
and at Fairhead, a rapid destruction is going on, by the decompo- 
sition x>f the alkaline portion of "their basalt. The same eminent 
philosopher," in opposition to the doctrine of general disintegra- 
tion, has remarked that '" the highest mountains, capped with 
eternal snow, are hermetically preserved from the effects of the 
weather." . But there is more oeauty than truth in the remark. 
The Skrida of Iceland, and the Avalanche of the Alps, show 
that even those giant sons of earth will one day bow their heads, 
and descend from their elevation. The torrents that sweep down 
their sides, the storms that roar around their brow, and the in- 
ternal heat of the earth, instruments more effectual than the 
vinegar and fire of Hannibal, are the agents with which nature 
is mining their foundations, and working their fall. The her- 
metical sealing itself, the vast masses of 1*j and snow which 
seem to shield them from the attacks of the weather, are often 
their principal destroyers ; for when they become unable to sup- 



NOTES. 41 

port the accumulating matter, they fall by their own gravity, car- 
rying with them the rocks on which they had reposed, and some* 
times burying whole villages beneath their ruin." — Brummond. 

Page 10— While the rapt Muse) from Aura 's purpled height — « 
Aura mountains command a most beautiful view of the dis- 
tant landscape. It was there that the last battle was fought be- 
tween the rival clans of McQuillan and M'Donnell, in which 
<the latter obtained the victory* 

JPage 1Q — All hail. Macartney / deign to hear the sframs— 
George Macartney, Esq. of Lissanore Castle. 

Page 10 — Tliat lit his soul, from wisdom's lioly shrine—* 
The late Earl Macartney. 

Page 10 — Far from thy hill of caves, through liquid air. 
Say, Eustace, 
William Read, Esq. author of the Hill of Caves, the Dream 
of the Ocean, and many other pieces of deserved celebrity. 

Page 1 \^—Danan — Knocklaid-^Bengore — FleasUn — 
Ben-an-danan, (the mountain of Danish sorcery,) is assumed 
as the place from whence the celestials let loose their anger upon 
Fion and his army. The encounter is called the battle of Bqyi- 
an-danan, and the tempest that overthrew the bridge has been 
denominated the magic storm. 

Knocklaid, the most easterly of the Aura mountains, is about a 
mile from Ballycastle, and is remarked for its strong blue tint, 
when viewed from a distance, owing to the colour of its vegeta* 
tion, and its great height ; its top being generally robed in mist. 
It commands a more picturesque and extensive view than any 
hill on the coast. The paps of Jura, and the other isles ; Rath* 
Ha, almost under our feet ; the mountains of Argyllshire; Sle< 



42 NOTES. 

mish, Sleivegallen, and Benbraden mountains * Lough Foyle 

and Ennishowen, are a few of the most prominent objects.. 

" Bengore is about seven miles west of Ballycastle, and, though 
generally denominated a headland, it is in reality made up of a 
number of small capes and bays, each with its own proper name. 
These capes form an unrivalled pile of natural architecture, in 
which all the neat regularity and elegance of art is united to the 
wild magnificence of nature." — Hamilton, 

Of these capes the most beautiful and perfect is called Pleas- 
kin. In the sixteen different strata of which it is composed, 
beauty and sublimity are wonderfully, blended and harmonized. 
Its altitude is nearly 400 feet from the sea. It presents a vari- 
ety of colours, the first 200 feet being adorned with different 
shades of green, vermilion rock, grey lichens, red ochre, &c. a- 
bove which there is a range of basaltic pillars, surmounted at 
some distance by another gallery still more magnificent than the 
former. Near this is Port na Spania, so called from a vessel of 
the " invincible armada," lost here. — See Drummond, from 
whom this account is abridged. 

Page 11 — What beams break forth— 
A brilliancy is frequently emitted from the capes of Bengore, 
which the fishers attribute to an enormous diamond, or diamonds, 
supposed to be bedded in the cliffs* 

Page 15 — Till Odin rose — 
It is unnecessary to give a detail of the Scandinavian mytho- 
logy, which is now rendered familiar to the reader by some of 
ur best modern poets. 

Page 14.— To wake the Letnures**** 
The restless ghosts of departed persons, supposed by the an- 
cients to return to terrify and torment the living* 



KOTES. 



43 



Page 14. — The shadowy spectre glides of Nenie Roe. 

Shanescastle, or Edinduffcarrick, the romantic and beautiful 
seat of Earl O'Neill, now in ruins, is the subject of many tra- 
ditions; among which the most remarkable is, that a lady of 
hat ancient family was carried away by the Banshee ; that she 
was, by the power of this visionary personage, endowed with inv* 
mortality, and became the superintending spirit of her race* 
Many similar traditions are current in the north of Ireland. 
What rank the Banshee holds in the list of spiritual beings, it is 
not easy to determine; but her favourite occupation seems to be 
that of foretelling the death of the different branches of the fa- 
mily over which she presides, by the most plaintive cries and 
lamentations. She appears to have been of a most vindictive 
temper, revenging every insult, particularly depredations on the 
white thorn, which was sacred to her, and immediately under 
her protection. 

To be under the guardianslup of one of these imaginary beings, 
was considered as the surest mark of a true Milesian descent ; as 
they never condescended to extend their protection to foreign 
or^less ancient families. The Banshee of Dunluce castle, the 
most superb ruin perhaps in Ireland, is distinguished by the 
name of Mave Roe, that of Shanescastle is called Nenie Roe ; 
the individual appellations all terminate in the word Ruagha 
or Roe, red, and they are collectively denominated " the red sis- 
ters,' from their suppbsed complexion. Thus has superstition 
distinguished each imaginary tribe or species by an appellation 
peculiar to itself. — See Miss Balfour s " Kathleen O'Neill.' * 

Page 15. — JVhere bursts yon ruined fane in living blaze. 
About two miles west of the village of Ballintoy, stand the 
ruins of Templeastragh ; ( Temple -Lahsadb, the flaming church,) 



£4 NOTES. 

perhaps the oldest monastic edifice in Ireland. Its ereetion f* 
ascribed to a Danish princess. According to the tradition of the 
neighbourhood, it was first founded on a projecting rock near 
where its ruins now stand ; bift the purpose of the builders was 
frustrated by some supernatural agent, who always demolished 
at night what they raised during the day. At length a light was 
observed to arise in the night at a small distance from the 
lacerated foundations. This was considered as a celestial sign y 
to mark the spot destined for the erection ; and tt|e structure 
being commenced on the favoured ground, the abbey was raised 
without further interruption. The inhabitants of the village ut 
Templeastragh are remarkable for their hospitality, the socia^ 
bility of their manners, and that simple credulity which gives an 
implicit belief to the fictions of tradition. They assert that the 
fane is still seen flamiBg by night ; and this their oldest legends 
say is symbolical, and betokens the error of all churches save 
those of the same creed of Templeastragh. This, according to 
their belief, was the only pure church of its age, indeed the first 
in Ireland where the gospel was preached, and the light of Chris- 
tianity displayed. Many such legends are still held true among 
the peasantry, in the lower part of the county of Antrim, 

Page 16 — Hath seen the fairy isle from ocean s depths emerge. 

An appearance similar to that extraordinary phenomenon, the 
Fata Morgana, (in the straits of Reggio, between the island of 
Sicily and the coast of Calabria) has been seen at different pe- 
riods of time, between Bushfoot strand and Innishowen. It is 
called by some of the natives the enchanted island : from others it 
has obtained the name of the new Brazils. The time of its ap- 
pearance is about sunset, when the level rays are reflected on the 
water. The observer beholds, on a sudden, as if rising out cf 



NOTES, 45 

ike ocean, an island overspread with a multiplicity of objects, 
such as those mentioned in the poem ; with companies of men 
on foot and horseback, in their natural colours and proper ac^ 
tion, and other strange figures, which pass away a little after 
sunset.— This phenomenon is accounted for by referring it to 
the reflective and refractive powers of effluvia suspended in the 
air. — See DrummoncTs Notes* 

Page 17 — Propels the salmon to the netsmcnis skiff. 
I have attempted, though in a manner infinitely inferior to Dr, 
Drummond's original, to describe the manner in which the sal- 
mon are taken. At the mouth of almost every river or brook 
on the coast, there is a salmon fishery. One of the fishers is 
stationed at a convenient distance from the shore, his net spread, 
and his eyesteadily fixed on the water, to announce the approach 
of the salmon to another, whose duty is to fling a shower of 
stones into the water, which is repeated from rock to rock, to de- 
ter the shoal from making their way back through the aperture of 
the net. 

Page 17 — Now from his eyrie Dhwgall downward skims. 
The fishers distinguish almost every species of seafowl by some 
Gaelic appellation. There is one known by the name of Dhu- 
gall, (black and white,) from his gle-jsy black feathers and white 
£w*et. He is a constant attendant upon the salmon ; and of course 
his appearance in the morning is a favourable omen for the day's 
fishing. When the shoal leads near the shore, in order to im- 
bibe the fresh water, he attends their course to the net, swim- 
ming or hovering on the wing ; and, croaking round the fisher's 
head, continues his importunities until he obtains the entrails, 
which are left on the shore as his share of the spoil. 



46 KOTES. 

Page 18 — 2u)W roused from grey Benmsre's slvpaidous height—* 
" Benmore, the most majestic promontory on the coast of An- 
trim, is situated about three miles east of Ballycastle ; it has 
been known by the name of Fairhead, and is the Robogdium of 
Ptolemy. Hamilton justly describes it as characterised by a 
wild and savage sublimity. None of the precipices on the coast, 
indeed, can vie with it in elevation, extent, or grandeur. It is 
composed of a range of enormous basaltic pillars, 2S5 feet high, 
and resting on a base which makes the whole altitude 85 1 feet. 
One of the columns is a quadrangular prism, measuring 53 feet 
by 56 on the sides, and about 200 feet perpendicular. Compar- 
ed to this, what is Pompey's pillar, or the celebrated column 
which stood before the temple of Venus Geiietrix at Rome, or 
the pedestal of Peter the great at Petersburg? The precipice, 
towering majestic over an awful waste of broken columns, pre- 
sents to the spectator the most stupendous colonnade ever erected 
by nature, and in comparison of which the proudest monuments 
of human architecture are but the efforts of pigmy imbecility to 
the omnipotence of God. He who dees not feel impressions of 
the sublime on Benmore, must be incapable of feeling them in 
any situation. 

" The grey man's path is a fissure in the face of the precipice, 
by which a path winds down to the shore. A huge pillar has 
fallen across the top of the fissure ; but it is immoveably fixed, 
and may be passed under without any apprehension." — Dm/)*- 
monds 

Page 19 — At Bona 2fargy , s roofless mouldering pile — 
" This abbey was founded in 15C9, by Charles MDonnell, 
and may be ranked among the latest monasric edifices raised in 
Ireland. It is situated about a quarter of a mile from the vil- 
lage of Ballycastle, commanding to the west a view of the ocean, 



NOTES. 47 

with the bold outlines of the rocks that rise in many a fantastic 
shape along the coast ; to the south, the undulating line of the 
mountains of Knocklaid ; to the east, the extensive glen of Ca« 
rey. The chapel is 100 feet in length, and 84 in breadth. To 
the east of the great entrance to the chapel, is a small edifice 
with narrow pointed gables, which seems to hare been the lodge 
of a porter or lay brother. The venerable stillness of this sa- 
cred spot, the numerous reliques of mortality that surround it, 
and the remembrance it produces of days that have been, give 
it, even in its present desolated state, an appearance more inte- 
resting, more impressive, than it possessed when rising in all itt 
pi enitude of monkish pride.*' — Belfast Magazine for April 1809. 
An extraordinary woman is said to have formerly dwelt in this 
abbey, known by the names of Sheelah dubh ni Valone, and the 
black nun of Bona Margy, who lived in the most austere man- 
ner, and in the constant exercise of devotion. Tradition lias 
assigned to her a wonderful knowledge of future events. Many 
wonderful stories are related of her, and the completion of some 
of her prophecies are even yet expected with some degree of 
apprehension. The mountain of Knocklaid, according to her as- 
sertion, contains in its centre an immense body of water, which 
at some future period is to burst forth, and deluge the surround- 
ing country to the extent of seven miles round. Other predic- 
tions of the recluse, as remarkable as this, have, it seems, been 
fulfilled, to the entire conviction of the credulous and simple 

inhabitants. 

Page 1 9 — Ah, woe, Dunluce / 

: Dunluce castle, not 4 miles west of the Causeway, formerly 
belonging to the M'Quillans, is perhaps the most interesting ruin 
in Ireland. 

Page 21 — Durikerry — Reda — Dufiseveric — 

Dunkerry cave is situated something less than a mile west of 



48 NOTES, 

the Causeway, accessible only by water. Its extent Is unknown, 
as no boat has ever explored its recesses ; but it must be of ex- 
traordinary length ; for the dashing of the sea in its subterrane- 
an caverns is so forcible, at a house about a mile inland, as to 
give occasional annoyance to the proprietor. 

The hanging bridge at Carrick-a-rede, which extends over a 
chasm 60 feet wide, and 84 deep, is an object of great curiosity 
to travellers. 

Dunseverie, (Shamrock castle,) is a ruin, on an isolated rock, 
about 5 miles east of the Causeway, formerly possessed by a branch 
of the family of O'Caghan, or O'Kean, whose superior chief re- 
sided at Benbraden, uear Dungiven, in the county of Deny ; and 
the destruction of these two kinsmen, with their dependents, hap- 
pened, according to tradition, exactly in the place and manner 
related in the poem. Con-a-goll, {translated Cornelius, or Con- 
nor of strangers — probably from his distinguished hospitality,) 
was the name of the chief of Benbraden ; Gille-dubh, (black 
Gilbert) was that of his kinsman from Dunseverie ; and their 
adversary was chief of the sept of M'Keon. Vestiges of his 
castle may yet be seen at Ballylagh, on the Bush river, close by 
the seat of Archdeacon Trail. It is called in the poem Dun- 
lagh, and the Bush river, after Drummond, is called Bosca. The 
scene of the massacre is Egrie glen, near Bushmills. Its name 
was formerly Cruch-can-acho, which will signify the glen of the 
cry, or -of the wrong. In the ruins of Dungiven abbey, the buri- 
al-place of the sept of O'Kean is still shown, with Con-a-goll's 
monument in good preservation, showing, in bas-relief, the chief- 
tain at full length and in full costume, lying in state, surrounded 
by his guards ; with an antique inscription. 

The story of Echlin O'Kean being carried off in his child- 
hood, and gifted with prophecy, is also traditional. 



<Z£jacuiatorg @>tan?as 

TO ALMIGHTY GOD, 

ON THE GLOOMY PROSPECT OF THE HARVEST SEASON. 

Written in October 1817. 



Heaven / burst thy sunny gates again / 

PARODY ON CAMPBELL, 



Infinite Goodness ! boundless Love ! 
Who reign'st sftpreme in Heaven above ! 

O thou, the sinner's friend ! 
While prostrate worlds before thee bow, 
let thy tender mere! 33 now 

To all mankind extend. 



And cease the unremitting shower, 
Dispel the clouds that darker lower, 

And chase away the gloom ; 
And bid the glorious orb of day 
Break forth in one unclouded ray 

And nature re-illume. 



* 



We sow the seed in certain hope * 
O grant us (we to thee look up) 

The produce of the ground ! 
Ere spectred famine's meagre form 
Hurls desolation's blackest storm, 

A wasting tempest, round ! 



50 TUT. INVITATION. 

Vouchsafe to hear in mercy, Lord I 
And with a suppliant's hope accord, 

Nor blast the guilty worm — 
Who offers at thy shrine a prayer, 
Imploring thee our land to spare 

From fate's impending storm ! 



4 
THE INVITATION. 

TO JAMES M'DONNELL, M. D. BELFAST. 

Written in March* 



Now spring unfaulds the genial year, 
And birdies sing sae sweet to hear ; 
Will you alang our shore appear ? 

I wish for thee ; 
^Twiil mak ilk scene to me mair dear. 

Thy face to see* 



sWore 



Come to our slrore, and dinna fail ; 
He waits thy coming, Rev. Tr**k 
Ye'il get frae him a kindly hail, 

And welcome dear; 
*He ha§ in stor^what I'll detail— 

They follow here. 

'* This Rev. gentleman is an antiquary of great note. With 4 
Dr. M'DonnelFs abilities in that department; the public are ae« 
quainted already. 



THE INVITATION. 51 

When Grose* first felt the sting o' death, 
What he had gathered, free frae skaith, 
He did to Rev. Tr**l bequeath, 

He had nae mair; 
And then to heaven resign'd his breath, 

And left him heir. 

Forbye, he has, what's odd to tell, 
A splinter o' the bolt that fell, 
That caused the loud infernal yell 

O' Michael's foes— 
That oped the jaws o' burnin hell, 

Wi? a' its throes. 

He has a box o' chips and shavins— 
Frae mither Eve they were the leaving, 
When she was made to ease the grievin* 

O' father man ; 
And coins o' Tubal Cain's — engravins 

O' the first plan. 

O* Aaron's rod he has a bud ; 
O' Adam's apron-bib a dud ; 
O' Sol'mon's crown the brightest stud, 

You may be guessin : 



Mm 



pBuvns, on captain F. Grose, collector of militarv 

antiqi! 



52 TJ&E INVITATION* 

O' Jacob's venison, the fud 

That won the blessin* 

He keeps the ring, by God's command 
Which wed the first on Eden's lan's ; 
Wi' it I hope to join nay han's 

And wedded be ; 
Soon may lie publish the blest bans 

'Tween her and me, 

And, tent ye what I now remark- 
He has the tools built Noah's ark; 
He'll bring thee ilk sne frae the dark, 

O' Adam's banes ! 
And show thee a' the curious wark 

Wraps his remains* 

0' what he has this is a sample ; 

Sae owre the lave I now maun tramples 

1*11 end wi* the most glorious temple, 

Baith out an' in ; 
He'll show ilk type, wi' its example, 

And cure for sin, 

Will ye na own to this yoursel, 
(Though few's like y«u I ken fu'well,) 
That owre ye a' he bears the bell 

Beneath the moon - ■ 



o 



LAMENT. 53 



That a* frae him, since Adam fell, 

Maun crave a boon ? 



LAMENT FOR ROBERT STUART, Esq, 

WHO WAS THE AUTHOR^ COMPANION FROM CHILDHOOD, 

Occasioned by his being pressed for the British Jleet at Greenock* 



O seraph Hope, of whisper sweet ! 
Say, will I yet my Robin meet? 
He haply reefs the shiv'ring sheet 

When tempests blaw, 
Or mans some gun amang the fleet- 
He's press'd awa ! 

When rolling on the stormy wave, 
Ye powers aboon, my Robin save 
Frae danger, and a watery grave, 

And cannon ba' 
'Till, fame him crowns a hero brave, 

That's press'd awa ! 

But if, ye powers, ye did decree 
A watery tomb to close his e'e, 
Or if, when roarin cannons flee, 

He's doom'd to fa', 
Til rn^uro my Robin till I dee, 

That's press'd awa* 
5 2 



54 LAMENT. 

Ye bards wha sing in doIefu' sang, 
Come mourn wi' me, for I think lang; 
Mourn, wi* the ills o* the press-gang, 

Their cruel Jaw 
That forced my Robin dear alang, 

That's press'd awa. 

Wha gangs wi' me at morn a roamin, 
When simmer's beauties a' are bloomin ? 
Wha strays wi' me at hour o' gloamin ?•• 

O ! nane ava ; — 
Roun' Robin ocean's waves are boomin,. 

That's press'd awa, 

O seraph Hope ! I cease to mourn ; 
Thy whispers bid me sorrow spurn ; 
For we may meet at Camstron burn,* 

Or Craigie shaw,f 
And Robin wi' the spring return 

That's pressed awa. 



* A small stream, a favourite haunt of the author's, 
f A woody covert known by the name of Craigie sbaw } near 
the birth-place of the author. 



WINTER. 

INSCRIBED TO MR. £. 



The sequent morn shall wake the sylvan quire % 
Nature will smile, will wear her best attire. 

* SHENSXONE*- 

Why dost thou mourn the leafless shade, 
The lonely desolated glade, 

Wrapt in a wintry gloom ? 
What's winter but a cheerless day ?' 
Spring drooping nature shall array, 

In renovating bloom. 

Though whirlwinds rise and tempests rave. 
Yet earth each embryo stem will save, 

That lies within her womb : 
So blooms for thee unfading spring, 
When thou hast felt death's frost-barbed stingy 

And winter of the tomb. 

What though thy woodlands, groves and bowery 
Bedecked with spotless infant flowers, 

When spring's young charms are gay, 
Are fair to see by early dawn, 
When silver dew-drops gem the lawn, ' 

Or at the close of day ?j 



56 WINTER. 

And when mild zephyr's softest breeze, 
Pants on thy flowers, awakes thy. trees, 

Breathing fresh fragrance round — 
Tis sweet to hear the birds in song, 
From bough to bough, thy groves among, 

Wake spring's harmonious sound. 

But ah! such prospects as they flow, 
Are but a momentary glow 

Of nature's fleeting scene ; 
Then let thine eye of faith expand?— 
Behold an everlasting land 

Above yon blue serene- 
So may thy soul from earth arise 
To brighter worlds beyond the skies, 

That are by Jesus given : 
Th«re thou shalt take a seraph's wing, 
And bask in an immortal spring 

Eternally in Heaven. 



STANZAS 

TO MISS ****. 



As love alone can exquisitely ble$$> 
hove only feels the marvellous of pain* 
Opens new veins tf torture in the soul, 
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born* 

YOVSGt 



Yis ! each noble trait was imparted to grace thee, 
That heaven has vouchsafed to bestow from above; 

My bliss would be peerless could I but embrace thee, 
Or press on thy lips the fond kisses of love I 

Oh ! how can the muse now be mute from expression? 

How sweet are the numbers when thou art the name I 
Or how can thy lover refrain from confession, 

Or cease to implore thee to share in his flame ? 

'Tis for thee, the deep sigh that escapes from my bosom ; 

Thy smile is my transport, thy frown would be fate i 
No floweret of bliss in my soul e'er will blossom, 

If thou dost return my affection with hate. 

Sure thou art congenial to purest sensation,— 
Then wilt thou in kindness my passion return ? 



58 SONG* 

Ami now as I languish in deepest vexation, 
Ah ! leave not thy lover thus hopeless to mourn 



SONG. 
Air, « Roslin Castle" 



Oh ! must I bid a last farewell 2 
Soft sighs in my sad bosom swell ; 
Can I dispel my growing fears ? 
Can I suppress my falling tears ? 
No lenient balm can hope impart, 
To heal my wounded bleeding heart ; 
And every woe } alas ! is mine, 
When parted from my Caroline, 

Farewell, ye little birds and flowers I 
Farewell, ye variegated bowers ! 
And thou, my native sylvan vale, 
That witnessed oft my love-sick tale ! 
Farewell thou stream I strayed along, 
Responsive to my plaintive song ! 
A thousand ties I must untwine, 
Ere I can leave my Caroline h 

Each varied scene that nature brings, 
My breast with anguish deeper stings s 



THE COURTSHIP. 59 

Though spring young flowers again bestow, 
Though summer's countless blossoms blow, 
The russet plains, the fruitful fields, 
Nor all the bounty Autumn yields — 
Dark, as when winter glooms combine, 
My sorrows for my Caroline ! 

Oh ! ruthless fate has spoke the word, — 
Sure all the powers above accord : 
For ever happy be the fair, 
While I, her hapless swain, despair i 
Fate ! let me seek some dismal cave, 
Then let thy storms around me rave — ■ 
But still my soul shall be the shrine 
Where lives thy image, Caroline i 



THE COURTSHIP- 



TO 'JENNY* 



They raise a din, baith out an' in, 
That I'm in love wi' thee, Jenny ; 

But let them jeer, an' at us sneer— 
I wish na' to be free, Jenny* 

What gars them touch at us sae much* 
Is ignorance, I ween* Jenny ; 



60 TO THE QUEEN OP MAY. 

The vulgar throng are prone to wrang, 
Since Adam's fall has been, Jenny. 

We'll no them heed, but try love's mead, 

Since we hae got the name Jenny ; 
My breast does burn, till thine return 

A kind responsive flame, Jenny. 
X»et's join our ban's in wedlock ban's, 

And be mair truly blest, Jenny ; 
We'll hope for joys, for girls and boys- 
Let God mak' out the rest, Jenny. 

TO THE QUEEN OF MAY. 



Blushing queen, of rosy smile, 
Hail, all hail, to Erin's isle ! 
Chaplets of the brightest gem 
Variegate thy diadem : 
Nymphs and graces, in thy train, 
Wanton o'er the green domain. 
Now the ruddy tints of dawn 
Tremble on the dewy lawn : 
All that charm by sight and sound, 
Wake to life and rapture round— 
Playful in the silver flood, 
Warbling in the vernal wood. 
-Fancy now is upwards borne 
Through yon radiant gates of morn: 



TO THE QUEEN OF MAY, 61 



On the bright domain below, 
See what peerless beauties glow ! 
Mountain robed in purple hue, 
Lake of smooth celestial blue, 
Landscape opening fair and wide, 
Wandering stream from upland side. 

Lo! creative beauty teems,— - 
All around an Eden seems. 
Rapt in ecstacy I gaze, 
While I thread the fairy maze. 
Brighter bloom the golden flowers!, 
Greener verdures tinge the bowers; 
Softer, from the glade, the grove, 
Music melts the soul to love. 
Hills with russet radiance glow, 
Brooks with sweetest murmur flow : 
Zephyrs blend their balmy sigh, 
In hymns of holiest harmony. 

Fair enchantress ef the grove, 
Wake, Erato ! sing of love g 
Breathe thy sighs upon my lyre, 
Throw soft magic o'er the wire. 
See ! for thee, in greenest bowers* 
Sylphs and graces dance the hours ; 
6 



62 TO THE QUEEN OF MAY. 

Marshalled thus in meet array, 
By the flowery-footed May. 
— Yes ! while rolling seasons move, 
May is still the month of love. 

Blushing May, with rosy smile, 
Hail to Erin\s favoured isle ! 
Now thine own immortal flower 
Spreads its bosom to the shower : 
Now the eye of morn is brightest : 
Now the shades of eve are lightest : 
Now the leveret's foot is fleetest : 
Now the milkmaid's song is sweetest ; 
Now the redbreast whistles clearest ; 
Now the tale of love is dearest ; 
Now the poet's fire is strongest ; 
Now the grey lark's flight is longest : 
Fluttering in the dappled sky, 
He sings his matin minstrelsy. 
Countless beauties glad thy reign : 
0!er each hill, and dale, and plain, 
Nature feels thy presence uear, 
Goddess of the blooming year I 



For Mr. A. G. 



Thought! reach the last, last silence of a friend* 



This stone is sacred to a bard, 

On whom the gales of life blew hard; 

But virtue was his stay, his guard, 

And now in heaven 
Sure her eternal free reward 

To him is given. 

Adversity ! thy bitterest blast 
Could not his radiant soul o'ercast j 
She shone refulgent to the last, 

Then flew away, 
To find, where every pain is past, 

A brighter day. 

Come near, ye pensive feeling few, 
And with your tears this urn bedew ; 
The soul that once these relics knew 

Now rests above ; 
His eye of faith had heaven in view, 

With stedfast love. 



64 



EPITAPH. 



Is there a man of warmest heart, 
Who could kind sympathy impart? 
Who could from little take a part, 

And it bestow, 
To heal the wound of misery's dart, 

While tears would flow ? 

Is there, of firm unchanging mind, 
Who bears the ills of life resigned — 
And even to enemies is kind ? 

Let him draw nigh, 
And heave, where virtue lies enshrined, 

The heart-felt sigh. 

» 

Misfortune! thy afflicting rod, 

He felt full sore, yet heavenwards trod ; 

To drop a tear o'er this green sod 

His virtues crave ; 
His part immortal lives with God, 

And here his grave. 




WRITTEN IN 

A SOLITUDE, NEAR BANBRIDGE, 

Built by J. CUbborn, esq* 



O ! Solitude in thy sequestered 
The boon of bliss is granted fancy's child; 

Here Inspiration wakes her wizzard shell, 
And touches every wire with magic wild. 

And here, in sweet devotion's raptured dream, 
The soul, by sense of sacred presence fired, 

Shall pour her orisons to him supreme, 

To grant that peace the faithful have acquired* 

And thou, of heart benevolent and good, 
Whose steps the solitary path have trod ; 

Full oft this lone recess of solitude, 
Has winged thy meditations to thy God. 



^tan?a& 



TO 



**#* ##### 



That goodness, inspired by an angelic feeling, 

Is pure as its source, and imparted most free ; 
*Tis kindness that still on the bosom is stealing, 
'Tis sympathy's throb, sorrow's poignant sting healing, 
And such are the feelings awakened in thee, 

As that, when adversity's glooms are impending, 

The child of misfortune's distress to relieve, 
To come as the angel of mercy descending, 
Thy sigh and thy tear with their miseries blending, 
The sosl healing balm of benev'lence to give. 

And orphans shall pray, while the boon, recollection, 

By goodness divine to their senses are given, 
Each heart still indulging the pleasing reflection, 
That thou may'st be found in that happy selection 
Of those high exalted on earth and in heaven. 



MM0> 

WRITTEN ON SEEING THE SITE OF BANCEfeEN CASTLE, 

In the Barony of Lecale* 



How cold is the warrior in death's gloomy dwelling, 
O rath of the valley ! that ^well in thy halls, 

His arm once so mighty, the foeman repelling, 
Who dared to besiege thy proud fortined walls. 

In vain did the hosts in their fury assail thee, 
Led gloriously on by the valiant Mountjoy ; 

To submission his forces could never compel thee, 
For no human power could thy fortress destroy. 

Now haply, where heroes in anguish lay bleeding, 
The feet of the warlike steeds wantonly tread ; 

On the turf that encloses the mighty they're feeding, 
Depressing the breast of the desolate dead. 

Thus time, over boundless creation wide wasting. 
The loftiest kingdoms of earth has destroyed | 

The fiat's eternal, that empires are hasting 
To sink; ami be lost in nonentity's fdiii 



ON HEARING 

SOME OF MY FAVOURITE AIRS 

Performed on the Piano Forte* 



* 



Ye minstrels angelic, your musical powers, 

To ecstasy waken my sad pensive soul ; 

. Refreshing as dew-drops to summer's parch'd flowers 

i 
As on my struck ear the sweet melodies stole. 

In life's vapid moments, O were I but near you, 
For O, I have oft felt their sense-dulling sting; 

From despondency's gloom it would free me to hear 
you 
Harmoniously touching each magical string. 

Awaken my muse from her lethargic slumbers, 

Entranced by the strain which such soft notes in* 
spire; 

While graces celestial attune the sweet numbers^ 
And holiest sounds *hallawaken each wire* 



THE 
TRAVELLER BENIGHTED IN MOURNE. 

a Fragment of an unfinished poem» 



JSeneath the formless wild he wanders oil 

From hill to dale, still more and more astray ;— •» 

While round him night resistless closes fast j 

And every tempest, howling round his head, 

Menders the savage wilderness more wild. 

Then too j they say, through all the burthened air, 

Long grsans are heard, shrill sounds, and distant sight, 

That, uttered by the demon of the night, 

Warn the devoted wretch of woe and death, 

Thomson. 

* # * # # # * 

* * # * * * 

Day left the stranger on the wintry wold, 

Where Eve her clouds round Mourne's blue ridges 

rolled ; 
And ere the destined hamlet he came near, 
Night shrouds the wanderer in those mountains drear, 

Hung round the hemisphere her darkest form. 
And broke around his head the lurid storm? 

7 



70 MOURNE. 

Before his eyes the herald lightnings flash ; 

Loud o'er his head contending thunders crash ; 

As if almighty mandate had been given, 

To crush creation with the bolt of Heaven. 

So breaks the peal, deep-volleying through the gloom, 

Tremendous harbinger of final doom ! 

By cavern and ravine, so dark and deep, 
He totters on, nor dares to brave the steep ; 
For, swept along the beetling summits hoar, 
Hocking the cliffs, the savage whirlwinds roar. 
In gushing torrents, sheets of sleety rain 
Burst through the blast, and swell the hurricane. 
With awe-struck wildness thro' the waste he wend^ 
And all his soul to sad reflection bends. 

" Ah, hapless fate, devoted thus to roam, 
Far from my natal cot, my native home ! 
Poor wildered pilgrim, stranger of the wild^— » 
What wayward fortune has my steps beguiled ? 
Vindictive Fate ! thy victim why pursue?— 
To resignation happiness is due ; 
Then let thy thunders burst upon my head, 
Thy flaming lightnings all their horrors spread \ 
Be the red bolt of holy vengeance hurled, 
And let the throe annihilate a world *— 



MOURNB. 71 

Omnipotent ! though to thy fiat blind, 
Yet in thy mercy I may mercy find." 

Still the benighted found no shelter near, 
But chained in resignation every fear :— 
When lo ! the tempest from the mountain rolls ; 
The fleecy clouds are slumbering round the poles ; 
The winds are hushed, and in her noon on high 
The moon is sailing on the liquid sky. 
Her silvery radiance bright reflected shone 
On where a clay-built cottage stood alone : 
To this he shivering bends his lonely way, — 
He finds admittance, and is bid to stay. 
With modest guise the infant groupe retire, 
To let the bashful stranger share the fire ; 
The cheerful matron hastes, without appeal, 
To spread her guest the fragments of a meal ; 
No churlish kindness taxed the offered fare- 
Heaven claimed the thanks, that led his footsteps there ; 
Then wonted tale, and song of artless glee 
Awoke around the festive jubilee. 

Oh, Hospitality! thy beauties charm 
The peasant's breast, with kindness ever warm ; 



72 MOURNE. 

And make his cottage feast more nobly great 
Than all the revels of the princely fete. 
* * * ***** 
Now learn, ye proud, nor more your bosoms steely 
How Afric's children for the stranger feel ; 
Ah, hapless Park ! thy fate was once to know 
What sympathies in savage bosoms glow ! 
Shame, Europe, shame ! the soul-debasing chain ? 
The driver's lash, the desolated plain, 
She owes to thee, — yet still does she extend 
The swarthy hand, her spoilers to befriend. 
Untutored feeling there seems more sublime — 
The generous heart beats true in every clime* 

But why so far in search of virtue roam ? 
Her brightest, holiest beam is shed at home : 
The pilgrim old, his eve of life o'ercast, 
His white beard floating on a foreign blast, 
Prays but ta reach the shamroc-sprinkled shore, 
That all his wanderings may at last be o'er ; 
And makes, amongst Ierne's bounteous race, 
His last retreat, his final resting-place. 
And should he track the circling islet rounds 
No kinder spot to shield his age is found, 
Than that which greets the Muse's roving eye, 
Where Donard's snow-clad summit seeks the sky, 



MOURNE. 73 



All hail, ye patrons of the hapless bard, 
From whom e'en weakest merit meets reward ! 
Where lonely Hilltown looks o'er silver Ban, 
That laves Rathfriland, winds through Moneyslan^ 
See classic Boyd, and philanthropic Tighe, 
Disclaim the pride of scornful scrutiny- 
Protect and patronize the rustic lay, 
And usher drooping genius into day ! 

Where blest Moyallen's lovely mansions rise, 
A peaceful race appear in simple guise ; 
Foes to no sect, their lives serenely glide, 
Unscathed by fell Ambition's maddening pride ; 
O may his minions ne'er their homes annoy, 
But virtue's sunshine beam a cloudless joy ! 
May Peace sit smiling on their temple fair, 
And Penn's meek spirit still be cherished there f 

And you, ye friendly sons of fair Kilkeel, 
Whose generous bosoms for the- stranger feel ; 
Should adverse fate impel him to explore 
Your hamlet rising on bleak Mourne's shore, 
Tb your kind mansions should he chance to come, 
Each wears the apect of his native homer 



74 



MOURNE* 



Though stern oppression's adamantine brand 
Has oft, my Erin ! smote thy sainted land, 
Yet, oh my country ! still thy sons are brave, 
On the embattled plain, and blood stained wave. 
Thy daughters, blooming as the blush of morn, 
Thy hills, thy dales and cottages adorn : 
They meet the stranger with benignant smile, 
And greet hira welcome to the holy isle. 




NOTES 

This unfinished poem, (the completion of which would have 
retarded the publication of the work, already too long delayed,) 
was intended as a slight tribute of gratitude to the inhabitants of 
Mourne, among whom the author experienced the hospitality he 
has attempted to describe. 

Page 67 — Ah, hapless Park f — 

The enterprising and unfortunate Mungo Park, whose re-J 
searches in the interior of Africa occupied so much attention, re- 
lates, that his passage across the Niger being interdicted by the 
king of Bambarra, he was obliged to retrace his steps, and seek, 
shelter in an obscure village at a considerable distance, until he 
should undergo an examination. Arriving there, he found, to 
his great mortification, that the fears and prejudices of the in- 
habitants had effectually closed the doors against him. 

Disheartened at this reception, he passed the remainder of 
the day under the shade of a tree, without any refreshment what- 
ever. The wind rose, and the atmosphere threatened a heavy 
rain : the wild beasts, too, were so numerous in the neighbour- 
hood, that, about sunset, he was preparing to pass the night in 
the top of the tree, and had turned his horse loose, to graze at 
liberty, when a poor woman, returning from the labours of the 
field, stopped to observe him. Perceiving that he was weary 



OEptgram, 

WRITTEN ON PASSING THROUGH THE VILLAGE OF 
EDEN, BELOW CARRieKFERGUS, 

Where there is a clumsy representation of our Jirst parents on the 
showboard of a public house* 

It has been matter of conjecture, 
And cause of many a learned lecture, 
Whether 'twas orange, pine, or pear, 
Our father Man got from his fair, 
Which robbed them both of present peace, 
And plunged in woe their fallen race* — 
But why in darkness should we rove, 
And seek the fruit front grove to grove ? 
Yonder in Eden, as you pass, 
Behold it in the luscious glass ! 
9 Twas neither orange, pear, nor pine,— 
It was a cluster from the vine. 



TO 

A REDBREAST, 

Who Jleto in at the author s tvindotv one morning, 
during a heavy Jail of snotv. 

O. Robin, but you're sair forlorn ! 
Your plumes wi' winter war are torn ; 
The warld's white wi* snaw this rnorn, 

And yet drifts thick ;— 
I hae a pickle groats o' corn, 

For you to pick. 

Let na mishap your spirits daunt ;— » 
I've been mysel aft times in want; 
But yet my cot the needy haunt, 

Tho' unco bare \ 
And let my meal be e'er sne scant, 

I gie a share* 

And Robin, I'll provide far thee> 
Till spring wi' blossoms dress the tree, 
And ope the floweret on the lee \ — ■ 

Then let you gang 
Back to the grove, whare bonnilie 

Ye'll sing your sang* 



THE STORM. 

WRITTEN ON THE NIGHT OF SUNDAY, NOV. IS, 1815* 



monarch ef the winds, admit my prayer / 

^ SHENSTONE. 

His is the storm the whirlwind and the shower, 
The blazing lightning, and the thunder* s power ; 
When fate in darkness stalks her dismal round- 
When oceans whelm, and earthquakes rock the grounds 

DRUMMOXIh 

Clouds and thick darkness load the air— - 

Save when the lurid light 
Illumes, with short and fitful glare, 

The labouring womb of night. 

And following fast Athwart the blast* 

Deep muttering thunders rear ; 
Then, closing round, the dun profound 

Seems darker than before. 

The wind, in its resistless course, 
Flings down the scattering hail 
IThe mountain floods collect their fcHfc&> 
And deluge all the vale* 



THE STORM. 81 



Saw ye that flash which lit the poles ?— 

Yon redder sheeted levin ? 
List to the peal ! — now, now it rolls, 

The angry voice of Heaven ! 

But why should fear my soul deform, 
Though gloom the night o'ercast ? 

Lord, need I dread the raging storm, 
When thou hast winged the blast ? 

Nor am I now by thee forgot.; # 

I feel thy mercies move ; 
For e'er the storm assails my cot, 

Its: force thou dost reprove. 

O what am I, that thou -should'st free 
My drooping soul from fear! 

While thousands cry aloud to thee, 
And various deaths appear ; 

Where swelling waves of ocean's flood 

The hapless bark assail; 
And tempests blow, in angry mood. 

A horror-breathing gale. , 



82 THE STORM. 

Before their eyes, from pole to pole, 
Thy flaming lightnings flash — 

Loud o'er their heads thy thunders roll, 
With fierce contending crash. 

Amid this elemental strife, 

Though thy red bolts be hurl'd ; x 
By land and sea save every life- — 

From tempest's wreck, a world. 

Thy guidance be their pilot's skill, 
Round faithless shores that steer ; 

Nor yet thy wrath on them fulfil, 
That far at ocean veer. 

On lashing surge, and rifted steep, 
Cast down a look of peace ; 

Lull every stormy blast asleep^ 
And bid the tempest cease. 



OK 

THE PROTRACTED RAINS, 

Itt MAY AND JUNE, 1811. 



While, all around, the swelling rains 
Deluge the fields and verdant plains, 

O mankind, cease to mourn ! 
For Sol's all cheering glorious beam*, 
Shall dry again the muddy streams, 

And in bright glory burn. 

Though sheets of drenching rain descend, 
And thickening clouds above impend, 

To wrap our fields in gloom, 
The great first Cause of every thing, 
In his good time, shall wake the spring 

With fresh reviving bloom. 

Then, doubting mankind, cease to fear, 

Although the earth seems cold and drear, 

Nor dread a grievous dearth ; 



84? ON THE RAINS. 

For he who is the seasons* head 
Shall bless again with store of bread, — ■ 
With plenty crown the earth. 

Nature must change in various forms — 
To day be calm —to morrow storms, — 

And shall in future be : 
There's nought within this earthly frame, 
That can for aye remain the same, 

Save Heaven's unchanged decree. 

But that shall firm unshaken stand, 
When vivid lightnings burn the land r 

And nature melts away ; 
When the loud trumpet's startling blast 
Shall summon all the good, at last. 

To an eternal dav. 



SONG, 

Air— « When silent Time? 

Cauld dreary winter's gane awa ; 
Nae mair his surly tempests blaw ; 
And melted are the wreaths of snaw : — 

Then wilt thou gang wi me, 
To see the spreading woodbine bowers, 
To see the bonnie opening flowers, 
Sae fresh, when wat wi* vernal showers. 

An' a' in bloom, like thee ? 

'Tis fair to see the moon o* spring; 
'Tis sweet to hear the birdies sing, 
And lightly flit on wanton wing, 

To court us to the grove : 
And now the gowden flower o' May, 
The primrose, and the daisy gay, 
Bloom ilka place we chance to stray, 

Inviting us to love. 



86 SONG, 

Nor lambkins sporting on the lee, 

Nor birdies singing bonnilie, 

Nor nature's sel,- compares wi* thee. 

When drest in a* her pride : 
O* a' the beauties on the green, 
Thou art the fairest to be seen, 
O' Nature and o' women queen ; — 

O gin thou wert my bride! 

Then wilt thou to my vow give ear P 
By a' aboon, I loe thee dear ! 
For thee I drap the silent tear, 

And feel lhe heaving throe : 
O gie nae mair my bosom pain, 
Nor brand thy victim wi* disdain, 
Nor let me tell thee aye in vain, 

My hopeless, cherished woe, 

O let thy heart responsive beat ! 
Gie me thy hand ! — sic rapture sweet 
Will mak' my saul wi' bliss replete i 

And grant me but thy love, 
And by the brightness o' thine e'e, 
And by the power that reigns on hie, 
I'll loe thee dearly till I die, 

And never learn to rove! 



OH MR. J. B. 

LEAVING THE ISLAND OF RATHLIN* 

Where he had been en a shooting party. 



Oj a' ye various muirlan' brooch! 
O, a' ye skimmers o* the flood! 
O, a* ye warblers o* the wood, 

Come f join my strain; 
Nae mair he'll come to spill your blood— 
Awa he's gane. 

Ye maukins, ye nae mair need peep 
About your holes, or secret keep ; 
Nae raair wiVnoiseless foot he'll creep 
About your den ; 
Ye a' may now in safety sleep — 

Awa he's gane* 

Nae mair ye need his pathway shun ; 
Nae mair ye'll thole his wanton fun ; 



SB ON ME. J. B. 

Nae mair ye'll hear his roarin' gun 

Alang the plain; 

Nae mair before his hounds yell run — 
Awa he's gane. 

O, ye may wish, baith ane and a ? , 
Him and his gun to keep awa ! 
For if ae blink o' you he saw, 

On bush or vane, 
Or hi the air, ye're sure to fa — 

He ne'er missed ane» 

How the Kenramer kernes wad jump,* 
To hear the cliffs' wild echoes thump, 
As on ilk blue basaltic lump, 

Smote his wee bullets. 
That in the wave, wi' noisy plump, 

Brought showers o' pullets i 

But they may wanton at their will, 
And rest secure, and fear nae ill ; 



* The inhabitants of Rathlin are not less noted for simplicity, 
than hospitality ; but the people of Kenramer are observed to 
be of a more independent spirit, and to have less intercourse 
with strangers, than those who live upon the other end of the 
island* 



LEAVING RATHLttt. 89 

A* lasting sleep has laid him still, 

And stapt his breath ; 
He felt it waur than poacher's bill— 
The shaft o' death. 

Now, pussie, ye may scud, at morn, 
Across the rigs o' brairded corn ; 
Ye'll hear nae mair his swelling horn, 

Or growling strife, 
That aft your trembling kind has torn, 

And robbed.©' life.. 

Yet, when the storm begoud to blaw, 
Mufflin the plains wi' wreaths o* snaw, 
Lest Luath's fang or lusty paw 

Your lives sud wrang, 
He tied him up ayont the wa, 

Wi' leathern whang. 

When winter frosts bound nature's frame, 
And farmers fed the nowte at hame, 
Though he was licensed for the game, 

Ye ate his kail ; — ■ 
At you he ne'er took deadly aim, 

Wi pouther an' hail* 



90 



ON MR, J. B. &C. 



And you that haunt the cliff and cave— 

Ye divers o' the swellin wave ! 

Ye may your glossy pinions lave, — 

111 list your cry, 
When wintry tempests wildly rave 

'Twixt rock and sky. 




TO MR. J. B. 

On the authors return from a nightly excursion* 

Yestreen, ye ken, the scene was mild ; — 
The Muse, sweet Fancy's darling child, 
My steps out owre the knowes beguiled, 

Whar heather bells 
Purpled the various rural wild, 

And dewy dells. 

Calm fell the night o'er Inisfail ; 
The lift was drest in azure veil ; 
The streamers danced on Lochindael,* 

WT gleamin' glance ; 
And stars begemmed, with lustre pale, 

The blue expanse. 

The moon her silver horns did fill ; 
The grey mist slept on Croagh hill ; 



* A bay in the Highlands of Scotland, visible from the neigh a 
bourhood of the Causeway 



92 TO MR. J. B. 

No breath disturbed the solemn still, 

Sae fair and clear > 

Sweetly the sound of fountain rill 

Boiled, on my ear. 

It was about the time o' night, 

When deils and ghaists, and mony a sprighir 

Haunt sightless round, dull sauls to fright 

WT deadly fear — 
O' sic I got an unco sight, 

— Ye'll quake to hear. 

Fu* loud I heard an eldritch mourn! 
Fear whispered through my saul to turn ; 
Wi* that a voice cried, " bring his urn, 

He comes wi* speed ; 
Before he ferries owre this burn, 

We'll knock him dead!" 

And what was't but a fairy train, 

That there had held their midnight reign ! 

They stapt their coursing o'er the plain, 

'Neath the moonlight,— 
--Quo'-ane, " to end his life wi' pain 

Wad shaw our spite." 



XO MR. J. B 93 

Guess ye the fright I now was in ; 
'Twas needless for me back to rin ; 
So I begun to pray, my sin, 

God to forgie' : 
My guilt— a* cares, I left behin' — 

But how to die! 

Then ilka sprite my ears did fill 

Wi' cries, — " we'll bring him to the hill, 

And when we amber dews distil 

At mornin' grey, 
While gentle zephyrs fragrance spill, 

We'll catch his lay/' 

While ithers cried, " awa to hell 
Tak him, to see the deil himsel, 
And teach him there Agrippa's spell, 

Wi' a' its harms, 
And bring him back— he'll fortunes tell, 

And practise charms" 

But ane, mair friendly than the rest, 
Said " God is God frae east to west : 
The bard has prayed within his breast — 
His prayer sincere 
9 



9* TO MR. J. B. 

Has reached to heaven, and you had best, 
Deils, lea' him here.* 1 

But now the moon her beams did shroud ; 
The fairy elves rose in a crowd; 
They filled the air wi' yells sae loud, 

The deik wi' flame, 
That ere I could the sight becloud, 

I was athanae. 

About these dreams -o* superstition, 
I wish and wait for your decision ; 
Whether these fragile shades o' vision 

Hae here existence, 
Cut aff frae Heaven, an* bliss Elysian, 

At sic a distance. 



TO MISS J- L, 

To thee, with breast of warmest glow, 
Heaven did a precious gem bestow, 

Bright as thy radiant eyes, 
To be esteemed by thee most dear, 
With purest love, and soul sincere,— 

'Tis wisdom — sacred prize! 

O do not at the blessing spurn ! 
That monitor which bids thee turn 

From every idle toy ; 
For vanity's fantastic train* 
Would taint thy heart, thy soul would stain, 

And every charm destroy. 

" Each fancy of the vulgar throng 
Maddens to lead thy footsteps wrong," 

Cries Wisdom's warning voice : 
O^hear the call which makes thee blest ! 
Let lier inspire thy gentle breast, 

And be thy happy choice* 



96 TO MTSS J. L. 

'Tis she will every vice controul, 
And form tlie bias of thy soul 

To virtue and to love ; . 
G seek her, while in early prime ! 
No distant date sums up the time 

When thou must hence remove. 

Then humbly for her guidance look 5 
Peruse each lesson of her book, 

And kneel before her shrine ; 
Nor seek her walks in solitude — 
For wisdom teaches to be good, 

Her ways are all divine. 

Thus, through the circling hours of day, 
Thy conscience shall be always gay ; — 

When locked in sleep by night, 
Celestial joys, in blisful dreams, 
Shall glad thy soul, till morning beams 

Return with glorious light. 

Seest thou how fast May's golden flower 
Drops and decays, in mead and bower> 
By time's malignant frown ? 



TO MISS J. L. 97. 

Behold the full blown rose of June ! 
Its beauty shall be faded soon, 
A likeness of thine own. 

Now beauty's rosebud paints thy cheek ; 
O let this teach thee to be meek i— » 

How fleeting is its bloom ! 
Thus dims the brightness of thine eye, 
Thus fades thy cheek of rosy die, 

And withers in the tomb. 




9...S 



HYMN, 

Composed in a melancholy state of mind. 

Whence this lingering melancholy, 
These fond longings of the mind ? 

Whence these sighs, that show my folly, 
Seeking comfort from the wind ? 

W T hat is fame, that some have courted ? 

'Tis a bubble on the stream ; 
'Tis a fabric unsupported— 

'Tis a pleasing, passing dream. 

Nature's bounteous God hath given 

Sober intellectual sense : — 
Thank, my soul, indulgent Heaven, 

For this blessed competence ; 

Yet, O yet, it often clambers, 
(Lord ! with sighs I now confess) 

Imagination's airy chambers, 
Seeking tastes of happiness. 



HYMK,. 29 



Where, O where's its only centre ?. 

Where, O Jesus, but in thee? 
On thy merits now I venture, 

Point of bliss and gravity. 

Joined by faith, my radius vector,. 

Lit by thee from pole to pole, 
Love, that's sweeter far than nectar, 

Now propels my circling soul. 



THE 

MAN IN THE MOON. 



Written en seeing the poem of " Woman and ther 
Moon^ in the Belfast News- Letter. . 



One night as I strayed on the verge of the ocean, 
The pale beams of Cynthia played on the flood ; 

The man in the moon seemed in dreadful emotion ! 
All nature was hushed, and I motionless stood. 

He lift up his hand, to my great consternation, 

And swore by the stars that were blinking on high, . 



100 THE MAN IN THE MOON. 

To wreak out his ire on this cold blooded nation, 
Which nought that is lovely in woman can spy. 

" The moon is my parent," he cried out like thunder, 
" The clown, even, knows that my sire is the sun : 

Go visit the muses, and tell them I wonder 
And shrink at the sight of the deed they have done. 

w They've slighted the woman^yet none to defend her ! 

I'll rescue the blooming and generous fair ; 
Command them to bring forth to light the offender^ 

Confessing his crime, — for my arm is made bare. 

" Forages fair Luna has claimed the attention 
And gilded the path of the dark sons of earth ; , 

And so lovely woman, I glory to mention, 
Has caught the affections of noblest worth. 

" 'Tis true, the moon changes — but 'tis for the better : 
She faithfully sends down her new borrowed ray ; 

And so would the woman, if man would not fret her,. 
While gladly she shines in her own milky way. 

u How dreary and gloomy when Luna's not shining, 
To lead on the way, and. to lighten the path ! 



THE MAN, IN THE MOON. 10i 

And oft have I witness'd distress and repining, 
When woman's fair charms were beclouded by death/' 

With that the night-bell woke my senses allured ; 

The dark fleeting clouds hid the orb from my sight $r 
To see her again I could not be assured, 

And so bade the man in the moon a good night* 



Enigma. 

There is a thing, with dangling head, 
Whose wit and brains took wing and fled, 
And left a changeling's in their stead ; 
Bray tell its name. 

There is a thing which oft you pass, 

With apish look, as dumb 's an ass, 

At which you peep through optic glass, 

Pray guess its name* 

There is a thing, for aught I know, 
Dropt from the moon some time ago j 



102 ENIGMA, 

Twa* there a puppet in a show ; 

Pray guess its name. 

There is a thing, with magpie hop, 
Would make a scarecrow for the crop,. 
Would make a sign for barber's shop ; 

Pray guess its name. 

There is a thing, half man, half maid,— 
Half man ! 'tis nothing but a shade, 
By taylors and staymakers made ; 

Pray tell its name. 

There is a thing* with neck and waist 
Like grey-hound, or some other beast, 
Which by these marks is easy traced :-• 
Pray guess its name* 



TO 

THE REV. ARCHDEACON ******* 

Tf man has got a power to chuse, 
To do or good, or ill refuse, 
"Would any turn aside to evil, 
Xured by temptations of the devil ? 
Then why? what need of Heaven's mandate, 
When none is doomed to hell by fate ? 
'Tis vain ; no hell for man hath burned, 
He of himself to virtue turned. 
Tis said, in Adam all have fell, 
And all for sin deserve but hell. 
Of these extremes, which is the middle* 
-Perhaps you'll find, and solve the riddle* 
But be it rightly understood, 
Man of himself doth nought that's goodo 
When man doth evil, wouldst thou blame 
Him, or the Power that should reclaim ? 
Should man take either of the roads, 
Know, ^ach impelling power is God's. 



TO DEATH, 



'"Many are the ways that lead to thy grim cave" 



One bustling and one da?icing into death?* 



Thou king of terrors ! mortal foe, 
That day and night goes to and fro, 
Fell cause of every pain and woe ! 

Saint, sinner, sage, 
Have got from thee a deadly throe 

In every age. 

At first, the serpent's subtle wile 

Did mother Eve with fruit beguHe* 

'-While she, with an assenting smile, 

Began to sin, 
And thou, O Death! approved the while, 

And so came in. 



SO DEATft. 105 

Now, since the righteous Abel's blood, 
Thou hast the race of man withstood, 
And dealt thy blows in furious mood, 

• With noisome clamour ; 
And but Elijah, since the flood, 

Escaped thy tremor* 

Since that first righteous blood was shed, 

The joy of earth 's for ever fled ; 

Thy storm has roared round every head ; 

Thy ruthless dart, 
With fateful certainty, has sped 

To every heart. 

When Sampson sought thy chambers drear, 
His boasted strength thou didst not fear ; 
Thou sat'st on fell Goliath's spear, 

That giant foe, 
Till valour's son to him drew near, 

And cast him low. 

At Gibeath thou didst thrice advance ; 
In Ephraim's wood thy steed did prance ; 
For thee was lighted heaven's expanse, 

With lengthened day s 

10 



106 TO DEATH. 

Till Joshua's sword and pointed lance 

His foes should slay. 

Before the walls of far-famed Troy, 
Thou didst thy murderous hands employ ; 
When Hector did whole ranks destroy, 

Thou then wert near ; 
His reeking blade thou saw'st with joy, 

And crusted *pear. 

Now fare ye weel — I'm in your power, 
Which costs me mony a weary glower ; 
I dread that soon ye'll knock me owre, 

Wi' coward blow, 
And grim distorted o'er me lower, 

My direst foe. 

Through rolling time, each circling year, 
Thou art the cause of many a tear ; 
The ties of love and friendship dear 

Thou rend'st in twain ; 
I hare no other things to fear, 

But thy grim trafe, 

A sacrifice was made by thee, 
Of God the Sen, on Calvary } 



TO DEATH. 107 



Yes ! by the eye of faith I see 

His blood was shed, 
But, by that blood, captivity 

Is captive led. 

All that have been, or e'er shall be, 
Must fall at last a prey to thee ; 
But our High Priest, to set us free, 

Bore all thy pain : 
Now where's thy sting, thy victory ? 

He broke thy chain, 



A WINTER NIGHT 

IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND.. 

When surly winter 'gins to blaw, 
An robe himsel wi* frost and snaw ; 
See roun* the ingle, in a raw, 

The rural folks 
Sit down and pass the time awa, 

In cracks and jokes* 

The grey haired couple cozey sit, 
Weel pleased to hear the youngsters 1 wit ; 
/The guidman maks and coals the split, 

And mends the fire, 
And snuffs and smokes as he thinks fit, 
Like ony squire.- 

The bleezin fire o f sod and peer, 
Gars some sit back, and ithers sweat, 
And thaws the amaist frozen feet 

O' rustic Will, 
Wha* scoured the muirs, through snaw and sleet, 

His e'e to fill. 



A WINTER NIGH*. 10$ 

The winsome matron at the wheel, 
Wi' canny e'e keeks at the chiel 
She thinks wad fit her Jenny weel ; 

An sighs to see 
Her careless smile, her heart o' steel, 

And scornfu* e'e. 

The waefu' cause she needna spier, 
Why Will, wi* a' his weel got gear, 
Meets nae return but aye a sneer, 

Frae foolish Jean, 
For she remembers wi* a tear, 

Wha comes between. 

Their cotter's son, a canny blade, 
Right skilful* in the wooin trade, 
Set a' his gins, and gript the maid 

Fair by the heart ; 
Nor frae him could they keep the jade, 

Wi' a' their art. 

The rustic smokes, and talks o' lear, 
Or how folk may mak muckle mair, 
By risin early, takin care, 

An spendin nane ; 
10.„2 



1 10 A WINTER NIGHT* 

Nor fails to please the runkled pair, 
Into the bane* 



They talk o' houses, Ian' and kye, 
When this ane calves, an that ane's dry, 
And how folk's hurried, that maun buy 

Baith milk an' butter ; 
For plash o' tea, it's waur than whye, — 

It's but het water. 

Hibernia has her frien's and foes ; 

They sing her joys — grieve owre her woes ; 

Nor bring the matter to a close, 

Till they declare 
They'd ring the villain by the nose, 

Wad rug her haiF. 

The kirk disputes 'bout points o' faith. 
Melchizedeck, or Jeptha's aith ; 
The witch o' Endor, or the claith 

That Israel wore, 
When journeying through the vale beneath, 

To Canaan's- shore.- — 

These mystic points, hid in the dark, 
Set a' their noddles quick to wark ; 



A WINTER NIGHT. Ill 

And in a wheef they do a dark, 

Waurs blacker coats,, 

Wha lie asleep, and winna bark 

Without the groats.. 

Neist tales o' ghaists an magic spell — 
O' witches lowin out o' hell, 
And tricks o' Nickie-ben himsel', 

Gae roun and roun,. 
Till ilka youngster thinks, pell mell 

He's comin down. 

But time, that flies though we sit still, 
Brings roun' the hour, that sorry Will 
Maun cross the eerie glen, or rill 

O' murmurin lay : 
The auld son puts him owre the hill, 

And points* the way> 

Now Will's awa> the lassie's glad, 
The supper's past, they haste to bed ; 
But balmy sleep awa is fled, 

A' Jean can dae; 
An thoughts o' Will rin in her head, 

That mak her pray. 



112 A WINTER NIGHT. 

" Ye powers aboon, instruct me now, 
Whether I should to Tam stan' true, 
Or tak the man that's het an' fou, 

Baith butt an ben ; 
I lea', I lea' it a' to you, — 

I dinna ken : 

Perhaps 'tis right in thy decree, 
That Will should woo, nor let me be, 
Wi' gear an cracks catch heart an e'e, 

And then my han*; 
A's dark, a's dark — I canna see — 

I'm at a stanV* 

Wi' that a rap is hafflins gi'en 

Upon the pane, — wjeel kend by Jean ; 

She quats her prayers, and opes her een, 

Scaur'd wi' the knock- 
And tremblin lets in Tam, his lane, 

At twal' o'clock. 

Blue wi' the cauld, — nipt wi' the frost, 
Poor shiverin Tarn is nearly lost ; 
But wait, — the greeshagh out is tossed 
Between his legs, 
Which thaws his bluid, and sairs to roast 
The beef an' eggs. 



A WINTER NIGHT. 11$ 

The night slips owre — nae time to lose; 
He enters quickly on his views ; 
An smilin Jenny hears o' news 

Unheard before ; 
Ye 11 tak your Tam, — or now refuse 

For evermore." 

He spurns at fear, and cares, and toil; 
He's young, he's strong — has heaven's smile ; 
A cog o' meal, a cruise o* oil, 

He hopes to hae, 
Though this should burn, and parritch boil, 

Baith night and day. 

The lassie, now put to her pinch, 
Maun steady Stan', or quickly flinch : 
Her time is short, — 'tis but an inch ; 

Quick as a shot, 
The nail she'll either draw or clinch, 

Just on the spot. 

" Since it is sae, I now resign ; 

I will be yours, and you'll be mine ; 

Sure as my arms I notv entwine 

Aroun' my love, 
My steady heart will ne'er decline, 

Nor faithless prove." 



1 14 A WINTER NIGHT, 

Thrice happy mutual loving pair, 
Unconscious of mad carking care ! 
Ye view the side that's bright and fair, 

And taste the sweet ; 
Nor think the warld's entanglin' snare 

May mak ye greet. 

Now Luna, shapet like a crown^ 
Behint a hill was sliduV down ; 
Nor maun she rin anither roun', 

Or cock her horn. 
Till by her light, frae Hymens town 

They baith return. 

A distant sound strikes on the ear, 
The clarion voice o' Chanticleer ; 
Wakes wi' the dawn the lassie's fear, 

An Tarn maun stride ; 
And, limpet-like, he's ikico sweer, 

To lea' her side. 

The kye now routin i' the byre, 
Call forth the carefu' waukrife sire, 
While Jenny rakes the scattered fire, — 

Lies down her lane £ 
An Tam glides hame, wi* strong desire 

For night again* 



PARAPHRASE 

ON REVELATION, i. 7. 



To call the nations to his bar, 

In flames of fire the Lord doth come ; 
The trumpet sounds "prepare, prepare! 
Awake ye nations ! time is done ; 

The conqueror of the grave draws nigh, 
And death itself begins to die." 

Lowly upon an ass he rode, 

. And wept o'er blind Jerusalem ; 
But lo ! he comes in yonder cloud, 
To judge the numerous sons of men ; 

And those who pierced his hands and feet 
Shall see him throned in awful state. 

Yea ! every eye shall then behold 

Th' incarnate God, enthroned in fire ; 
Though like a slave he once was sold, 
And crucified at man's desire. 

Though like the lamb he suffered here^ 
As Judah's lion he'll appear* 



116 PARAPJfRASE, 

Before him lambent lightnings glare, 

While twice ten thousand thunders roar ; 
And all hearts fail through guilty fear, 
That never feared his name before. 

Their Jknees wax feeble — lift the head- 
Seek after death, but death is fled. 

Prom every circle to its pole, 

Tremendous earthquakes shake the sphere ; 

And nature groans and writhes her soul, 

To view her dissolution near. 

And then resounds the dreadful cry 

" The judge! the judge is drawing nigh ■!" 

The wicked, seized with guilty dread, 
Now wail because of him, and mourn : 
For them his precious blood was shed, 
And they rejected it with scorn. 

All kindreds wail, who lived in mirth, 
And hid their talents in the earrti. 

Ah 1 see, in that dread awful hour, 

The wicked starting from the grave, 
Immortalized, to die no more, 

And black as hell's dark yawning cave ! 
At their reward they now arrive, 
Where life b dead, and deathY alive* 



PARAPHRASE. 117 

The rich, the poor, the great, the small, 

The mighty -and ignoble, cry — 
" O rocks and mountains, on us fall, 
And hide us from his piercing eye! 
The Hay of wrath, the day of doom, 
Alas! alas! is come, is come" 

His flaming eyes now dart a look, 

And boundless worlds are set on flame; 
Yea, heaven and earth expire in smoke, 
And place is found no more for them. 
They melt, dissolve, — his look obey — 
Groan their last groan, and pass away. 

The right edas— those who loved him here ? 

And for his sake would life forego, 
Then bid farewell to every fear, 
To sin, and everlasting woe. 
With songs to Ziion they return, 
No more to weep, or wail, or mourn; 

Their bodies, raised by power divine, 
Blooming as youth with Eden's bloom,— 

Brilliant as yonder sun they shine, 
And to the new Jerusalem come 
11 



118 PARAPHRASE, 

Lovely as angels they appear, 

And Jesus feeds and leads them there. 

But O ! the glories of that place 

What tongue can tell, or heart can know? 
Where rivers of redeeming grace, 
Like Jordan, swell and overflow! 
Where all, in whitest robes arrayed, 
Drink at salvation's fountain head* 

O may we wash our robes below, 

By faith, in Jesus' .precious blood, 
Not only clean, but white as snow, 
Like those before the throne of God. 
That when he comes in clouds again, 
Our spulsmay cry-*-even so, Amen! 

TO MR. H**** M********. 



There is in my bosom a festering sorrow, 
That chills every scion of hope in its bloom ; 

But e'er I from mankind one sympathy borrow, 
Death shroud me eternally up in the tomb ! 

But yet not in vain has my bosom confided 
In one, with whose friendship no falseiiODds en- 
twine ; 

And one I have found, in whose heart, undivided, 
Some feelings awaken, responsive to mine. , 



TO MR. H. M. 119 

Ye souls, with the tenderest sympathies fashioned, 
Where softness and firmness have blended their seed, 

For the crimes and the sorrows of others impassioned, 
Ah, ye are the victims that live bat to bleed ! 

What anguish is theirs, who, by nature exalted, 
Are stamped with the nobler endowments of mind ! 

By cold-hearted malice and envy assaulted, 

While scorpion-stinged calumny stabs them behind. 

But be it my lot, from all mankind estranged, 
To live and to die still unknowing, unknown — 

They seek bliss in vain, who the nations have ranged, 
Destroying that peace which would else be their 
own. 

In my heart rude Adversity's rank weeds have stifled 
Each rosebud of joy, and defaced its young form ; 

The gusts of affliction life's summer have rifled — 
No bloom to survive from the wreck of the storm* 

But what though the night-cloud should scowl for a 
: season, 
And seem to envelope the bard in its gloom ? 
Through the tempest his soul shall be guided by 
reason, 
And for him the flowerets of Eden shall bloom. 



120 TO MR. H. M. 

Though oft.al.most driven by misfortune tQ madness* 
I'll patiently bear, and no longer repine : 

For often the mild-beaming eve-star of gladness 
Hath glanced on a bosom as woful as mine. 

The seaman, long tost on the storm-ruffled billow,^ 
When moored in the haven, how happy and blest ! 

So I, when my wanderings are past, on my pillow, 
Shall feel more delight in t the sweetness of rest. 

By day, when the sun-beam, shall gild the grey mountain, 

Remembrance shall wake on my own native wild, 
And at night, when the moon will have silvered the 

fountaio— 
Thy friendship, bestowed on the Muse's lone child, 

O friend of my heart ! my, rapt fancy enfolds thee, 

When darkness and woe on her vision are driven ;. 
Despairing, forsaken, — with joy she beholds thee, 
The last beam of bliss which she borrows from heaven, 

TO GEO. A. WRAY, Esq. 

Let Adulation tune the venal reed, 
And prostitute, with sly insidious art; 

The flame that lights to every nobler deed, 

And nerves the generous purpose of the heart : 



TO a. A. WRAt, ESQ. 121 

Small is the triumph numbers can impart, 
When song would raise a tyrant's guilty fame ; 

But when the tear of gratitude will start, 
Shall envious scorn the heart-felt rapture blame, 
Which gives its dearest meed, a tribute to thy name 

The jarring numbers of my rustic song 

Were early rolled discordant on thine ear ; 
Uncouthly came the measure from my tongue, — 

Yet kindly still didst thou vouchsafe to hear ; 

And if one spark of genuine nature there 
Smote in collision on the waking wires, 

Thine was the tone, to feeling ever dear* 
Which lights the soul with warmest, purest fires,-— 
That intellectual thrill which Heaven itself inspires* 

Though fate forbade that thy excursive eye 
Should scan the errors of my latter page, 

Still let me hope to find protection high, 
And trust the clement virtue of the age. 
Yet if perchance the angry critic's rage, 

All harshly just, should scorn my feeble lay, 
O let this truth his zealous wrath assuage — 

No line is found, to weaken virtue's sway, 
Or lead the youthful mind from her bright path astray* 
11. m2 



OS HEARING A DISCOURSE DELIVERED B¥ 

WILLIAM NEILSON, D.D.>I.R.I.A, 

IN THE IRISH, FROM THESE WORDS * 

u But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be 
whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye 
and learn what that meaneth, — -I will have mercy, and not sa- 
crifice ; for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners, 
to repentance" — Mathew. 



Sweet as that glorious anthem of the sky, 
Which poured from heaven seraphic harmony, 
And woke the shepherds, on that hallowed morn> 
When the meek man of sacrifice was born — 
Thy voice, which doth the gracious tidings bring, 
That mercy yet expands her healing wing ! 

His love unsearchable, O who may trace, 
W T ho found on spacious earth no resting-place ! 
The Son, contracted to incarnate span, 
Though very God, became a perfect man ; 
Laid down for us his starry diadem, 
And came — the blessed babe of Bethlehem ! 

The virgin mother watched ; the holy child 
Slept in the manger, lonely, dark and wild ; 



ON. HEARING A SERMONV... 120i 

The wandering world, in error's guilty maze, 
Heard not the cherub legion's song of praise, 
Nor knew what high and gracious ransom lay,-. 
In loved Judea On that glorious day, r 
When rose salvation's day-star, beaming bright, 
Whose radiance pointed tojthe infant Lights 

Behold ,-the sufferer, from his mother's womb 
Beset with, troubles, travelling to the. tomb! 
His houseless head found no kind shelter here, 
For in his tribe he was a wanderer. 
Bowed in Gethsemane, he wept and prayed,— 
Was by perfidious traitor's kiss betrayed, 
Accused, found guilty, buffeted; reviled?— ■-- 
No yet was wrath infinite reconciled : 
The hamefal tree was by the victim borne, 
Galled v ith derisive wreath of pointed thorn ; 
The gre& ? the humble mighty man of woe, 
Bore the embodied sins of all below; 
By him he l^d preserved was thrice denied,— 
With meanesknalefactors crucified. 
His nerves with sharpest nails were rudely torn, 
—For us, for us, these agonies were borne ! 
With hig last groan our sins were all forgiven,-?* 
His fallen seed,were raised to life in heaven. 



124 ON HEARING A SERMON. 

O ever glorious light of gospel day, 
Which sheds o'er earth a clear and fadeless ray I 
Well might the holy prophet lift his voice, 
To bid the howling wilderness rejoice I 
The season ripens in the womb of time, 
That frees mankind from misery and crime ; 
The lowly vales rise level to the plain ; 
The steepy mountains bow their heads again ; 
Each crooked path, a straight extending way, 
Prepares the boundless triumph* of that day, 
When once again the S^« of God appears, 
With his millennium of unclouded years : 
Or when with power descending from above, 
He lifts from earth the chosen of his love. 

Not as when from the splendors of the sky 
The mighty victor came, for man to die ; 
Descended from his Father's starry throne, 
And trod the wine-press of his wrath alone I 
No — when his might o'ershadows earth agai»> 
The trump shall sound from yon ethereal .^lain ; 
Louder than Heaven's red boh the blast shall roll, 
And rock the prostrate world from pole to pole. 

All hail to thee, in whose sweet accents bland 
Flows the primeval language of our land ! 



ON HEARING A SERMON. 125 

And thine be that afflatus given to him 

Whose lips were touched with fire of seraphim — 

Gr as that holier Spirit, which was given 

In flaming tongues, borne on the breath of Heaven, 

— To hasten that bright period of his word, 

When earth's remotest tribe shall know the Lord ! 

And hark ! the gospel trumpet sounds abroad^ 
To bring the weary wanderers back to God I 
O will ye now obey the gracious call, 
And turn, and live, in him who died for all ?...-. 
So, whenye cease to draw your vital breath, 
And slumber in the cold embrace of death, 
Eternal day-spring shall more bright illume 
Your dreary night, — the grave's unfathomed gloom. 
When the last thunder shakes creation's framo — 
The glance of God sets countless worlds on flam^rr- 
When death and hell, with one tremendous groan, 
Cast forth their dead before : the judgment throne,—^ 
When all, in " terror-mingled trust," await 
The fiat of inexorable fate— 
O may his mercy, boundless as his love, 
Make you his ransomed denizens above H 

THE^END. 



CONTENTS. 



Poetic Sketches of the Giants' Causeway, &c. 

Notes to do. ... 55 

Ejaculatory Stansas ... ... 40 

The Invitation.— (To Dr M'Donnell, Belfast) ... 50 

Lament for Robert Stuart, esq. ... 53 

Winter 55 

Stanzas to Miss ***** 57 

Song 58 

The Courtship, 59 

To the Queen of May 60 

Epitaph for Mr. A. G 63 

Lines written in Mr. Clibborn's Hermitage, ... 65 

Stanzas to — — — ... ... ... ... ... 66 

Lines written at Bangreen ... ... ... ... 67 

On hearing a Piano Forte ... ... ... ... 68 

The Traveller benighted in Mourne ... ... 69 

Notes to do. ... ... 15 

Epigram ... * 78 

To a Redbreast 79 

The Storm ... .~ 80 

On the protracted Rains in 1811 ... •.. ..« 85 



CONTIKTS, 

Song .*• ... ~ 85 

On Mr. J. B. leaving RatMin 87 

To Mr. J. B 91 

To Miss J. Ls ... 95 

Hymn ... ... '•■*.. ... 98 

The Man in the Moon 99 

Enigma ... ... ... ... ... ... 101 

To the Rev. Archdeacon—— » 10o 

To Death ..♦ 104 

A Winter Night in the North of Ireland ... 108 

Paraphrase of Rev. i. 7 ... ... 115 

To Mr. H. M. ... 118 

To Geo. A. Wray, esq. ... 121 

On hearing Dr. Nelson preach a Sermon in Irish 125. 



The following additional Subscribers have been rf reived* 



Brown Mr J. W. Grenshaw Murphy S. esq. Rathfriland 

Cooch Mr J. Larne M'Cartin Capfc Portaferry 

Douglas Miss, Cloughorr M'Curdy Miss, Cloughfinn 

X)ickey Miss, Banside NeilJ, Dr. Coleraine 

Falls Rev. W. Aughnacloy Read, Mr T. M. Knockbreda 

Falloon, Rev. M. Ballylessen Ross Mr J. Belfast 

Groves Mr R. Drumnagee Smyth T.^sq. Rathmullen 

Hutchinson — esq, Glasgow Segrove J., A. M. Carrickfergus 

Johnston R. esq Glynn Starr Mr P. Royal Artillery 

Kyle Mr. A. Dungiven Simpson Mr. J. Drumnidra 

Kirkpatrick Mr S. Ballymoney Tegg Major J. Liscarbrey 
lafferty Mr. W. Dungiven 



In?the argument to the Sketches of the Causeway, line £ from 
the bottom, for Margy — Dunluce — Benmore, read Bcnmore-* 
%fargy — Du rdu ce. 

Page 19, line 4 from the bottom, for redoubled, read redoubted. 

Page 22, line 16, for woe, read fate. 

Page 27, line 7 from the bottom, for peace read 'joy's. 

Page 42, line 4 from the 'bottom, in a few copies, for ur read 0«r. 

J^qge 64, line 4 from the bottom, in some of the copies, for to kfave 
a sigh, read to drop a tear. 



/The author has to apologize to the public for the imperfect 
state in which these latter pieces appear, owing to some unlucky 
circumstances, which, however, would be uninteresting to the 
reader.— But for the number of pages promised in the prospec- 
tus, they would, with the exception of one or two, have been en- 
tirely suppressed; 



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(724)779-2111 



